[5] gamðir (m.) ‘amusing one’: The word is a poetic term most likely referring to falconry and attested only once (KormǪ Lv 23/3V (Korm 25)). It is possibly related to gaman m. ‘amusement’ (cf. New Norw. gama seg, gamast ‘amuse oneself’; Falk 1925a, 246). If so, gamðir may have been derived from *gam(an)-þér (Holthausen 1948, 79; cf. Björn Magnússon Ólsen 1888, 42; ÍO: gamðir).
References
- Bibliography
- ÍO = Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon. 1989. Íslensk orðsifjabók. Reykjavík: Orðabók Háskólans.
- Holthausen, Ferdinand. 1948. Vergleichendes und etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altwestnordischen. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
- Falk, Hjalmar. 1925a. ‘Die altnordischen Namen der Beizvögel’. In Germanica: Eduard Sievers zum 75. Geburtstage 25. November 1925. Halle (Saale): Niemeyer, 236-46.
- Björn Magnússon Ólsen. 1888. ‘Om versene i Kormaks saga’. ÅNOH, 1-88.
- Internal references
- Edith Marold (ed.) 2022, ‘Kormáks saga 25 (Kormákr Ǫgmundarson, Lausavísur 23)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross, Kari Ellen Gade and Tarrin Wills (eds), Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 5. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1066.