[5] bíldskorna ben ‘lancet-scored wound’: The procedure of blood-letting is called æða-blóð (CVC), the homonym æðr being both ‘blood-vessel’ and ‘eider duck’. Cf. Gestumbl Heiðr 35/3VIII (Heiðr 82) and Anon (FoGT) 20/5, which rely on the same pun on æðr, and Notes there. Bíldskorinn ‘lancet-scored’ is a hap. leg.
References
- Bibliography
- CVC = Cleasby, Richard, Gudbrand Vigfusson [Guðbrandur Vigfússon] and W. A. Craigie. 1957. An Icelandic-English Dictionary. 2nd edn. Oxford: Clarendon.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, The Fourth Grammatical Treatise’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=34> (accessed 26 April 2024)
- Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 82 (Gestumblindi, Heiðreks gátur 35)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 449.