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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Þul Hrafns 1III

[4] borginmóði: This is a poetic name for ‘raven’, which may be interpreted as ‘one saved by one’s mood’ (so LP: borginmóði), from the p. p. of the strong verb bjarga ‘save, help’ and móðr m. ‘mood, wrath’ (cf. the adj. borginorðr ‘cautious in words, reserved’). Faulkes (SnE 1998, II, 249) suggests ‘one secure in mood, haughty, self-confident one’.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
  3. SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.

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