[8] geystir (m. nom. pl.) ‘enraged’: Emendation from ms. geysta is necessary so that the adj. qualifies þeir ‘they’ in l. 7 (so CPB II, 305, followed in Skj B). Fms 11 retains geysta but glosses it with the m. nom. pl. óðir ‘raging, enraged’. Geystr is p. p. of geysa ‘rush, gush, make rush’, hence ‘forcefully impelled (physically or mentally), in forceful motion, powerful, enraged’ (see LP: 2. geysa).
References
- Bibliography
- Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
- Fms = Sveinbjörn Egilsson et al., eds. 1825-37. Fornmanna sögur eptir gömlum handritum útgefnar að tilhlutun hins norræna fornfræða fèlags. 12 vols. Copenhagen: Popp.
- 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.
- CPB = Gudbrand Vigfusson [Guðbrandur Vigfússon] and F. York Powell, eds. 1883. Corpus poeticum boreale: The Poetry of the Old Northern Tongue from the Earliest Times to the Thirteenth Century. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon. Rpt. 1965, New York: Russell & Russell.