[8] kvíslatré ‘a forked tree’: I.e. the homonyms súla ‘forked piece of wood used as a neck yoke to prevent pigs from escaping the pen’ (see Fritzner: súla 2) and súla ‘gannet’ (Þul Fugla 3/1). Kvíslatré is a hap. leg. in poetry and there is only one recorded instance in prose (in Reykd ch. 22, ÍF 10, 220; cf. ONP: kvíslartré). This gloss is provided in 1562ˣ. In 743ˣ Árni glosses svala ‘swallow’, but this likely resulted from his misreading of the word súla.
References
- Bibliography
- Fritzner = Fritzner, Johan. 1883-96. Ordbog over det gamle norske sprog. 3 vols. Kristiania (Oslo): Den norske forlagsforening. 4th edn. Rpt. 1973. Oslo etc.: Universitetsforlaget.
- ONP = Degnbol, Helle et al., eds. 1989-. A Dictionary of Old Norse Prose / Ordbog over det norrøne prosasprog. 1-. Copenhagen: The Arnamagnæan Commission.
- ÍF 10 = Ljósvetninga saga. Ed. Björn Sigfússon. 1940.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Anonymous, Reykdœla saga’ in Margaret Clunies Ross, Kari Ellen Gade and Tarrin Wills (eds), Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 5. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=67> (accessed 25 April 2024)
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Fugla heiti 3’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 954.