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Note to Þul Elds 1III

[6] skerkir (m.) ‘noise-maker’: Agent noun from a weak verb *skerkja ‘make noise’ (see Note to Þul Sverða 2/1). It is also the name of a giant (Þul Jǫtna I 4/4). Ms. B has the synonymous word herkir (from hark ‘tumult’; cf. harkr ‘crackling one’, st. 3/4 below), which, like the name Skerkir, is also found among the giant-names (Þul Jǫtna I 2/3). Neither of these heiti is otherwise used in poetry. RE 1665 has herkir (‘Herkier’) but omits skerkir, which could indicate that the latter is an innovation in A.

References

  1. Internal references
  2. Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Jǫtna heiti I 4’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 713.
  3. Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Sverða heiti 2’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 791.

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