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Note to Þul Hauks 2III

[6] fjǫrsungr (m.) ‘spotted one’: This heiti could be a name for a spotted falcon, the Peregrine falcon (cf. the French term for that bird, faucon madré, and ModEngl. spotted falcon, a rare name for the Peregrine falcon; see Falk 1925a, 241). The word is not found elsewhere as a heiti for ‘hawk’, but see fjǫrsungr ‘weever’ (Þul Fiska 3/1).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Falk, Hjalmar. 1925a. ‘Die altnordischen Namen der Beizvögel’. In Germanica: Eduard Sievers zum 75. Geburtstage 25. November 1925. Halle (Saale): Niemeyer, 236-46.
  3. Internal references
  4. Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Fiska heiti 3’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 855.

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