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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Þul Elds 2III

[3] túsi (m.) ‘crackling one’: Or tusi (the quantity of the vowel cannot be established with certainty). A hap. leg. Cf. New Norw. tusa, tuska ‘crackle, make noise’ (see AEW: tusi). Kock (NN §105 n.) argues that the correct form of this heiti is tussi, and that it may be related to tjǫss ‘whistling’ (hence ‘noisy’). Alternatively, the word could be related to OHG zusken ‘burn’ (so Holthausen 1942, 270).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  3. AEW = Vries, Jan de. 1962. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2nd rev. edn. Rpt. 1977. Leiden: Brill.
  4. Holthausen, Ferdinand. 1942. ‘Etymologisches und Grammatisches’. BGDSL 66, 265-75.

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