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Note to Þul Elds 4III

[3] gnipall (m.) ‘high one’: An obscure word, possibly related to ON gnípa f. ‘peak’ and Gneip, the name of a giantess (see Note to Þul Trollkvenna 2/3; cf. ÍO: gnipall). De Vries (AEW: gnipall) argues that the heiti may refer to a tongue of flame. Other than in the present list the word occurs only in RE 1665 (‘Gnipal’).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. AEW = Vries, Jan de. 1962. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2nd rev. edn. Rpt. 1977. Leiden: Brill.
  3. ÍO = Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon. 1989. Íslensk orðsifjabók. Reykjavík: Orðabók Háskólans.
  4. Internal references
  5. Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Trollkvenna 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. 725.

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