[2] Vingskornir: This is Sigrdrífa’s horse in Fáfn 44/4. The meaning of the name is perhaps ‘land-ploughing one’ (from ving-, cf. vengi ‘land’, and ‑skornir, an agent noun from the strong verb skera ‘cut’; see LP: Vingskornir). Alternatively, the first element, ving-, could mean ‘swing, stagger’, thus expressing the notion of unsteady motion (so Kahle 1903, 171; AEW: vingr, Vingskornir). The name is otherwise not attested in skaldic verse.
References
- Bibliography
- AEW = Vries, Jan de. 1962. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2nd rev. edn. Rpt. 1977. Leiden: Brill.
- 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.
- Kahle, Bernhard. 1903. ‘Altwestnordische Namenstudien’. IF 14, 133-224.
- Internal references
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