[3] landnyrðingr ‘a northeast wind’: This term is explained as originating with reference to the western coast of Norway (LP: landnorðr lit. ‘land-north’, north-east). Cf. Merl I 84/2. For scholarly discussion of this system of orientation see Stefán Einarsson (1944), Haugen (1957), Jackson (1998), Wanner (2009, 49‑50). DGB has simply ‘a north wind’.
References
- Bibliography
- 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.
- Haugen, Einar. 1957. ‘The Semantics of Icelandic Orientation’. Word: Journal of the Linguistic Circle of New York 13, 447-59.
- Jackson, Tatjana N. 1998. ‘On the Old Norse System of Spatial Orientation’. SBVS 25, 72-82.
- Stefán Einarsson. 1944. ‘Terms of Direction in Old Icelandic’. JEGP 43, 265-85.
- Wanner, Kevin J. 2009. ‘Off-Center: Considering Directional Valences in Norse Cosmography’. Speculum 84, 36-72.