Note to GunnLeif Merl I 52^VIII

[1-2]: Bret 1848-9 explains this as a reference to the custom of dividing coins as a token of allegiance, apparently in ignorance of the various C12th accounts mentioned above (see Note to [All]). Finnur Jónsson explains mótpenningum correctly as præget mønt ‘stamped coins’ (LP: mótpenningr). The explication in Merl 2012 is unclear and seems to reflect some chronological confusion. The noun mótpenningr is a hap. leg. and may be a neologism on Gunnlaugr’s part; ONP: mót 1 cites two instances from C14th prose texts of the simplex in reference to marks or stamps on silver coins. The noun mótmark ‘stamp-mark’ and verb mótmarka ‘mark with a stamp’ appear first in the latter half of the C13th in Norwegian contexts (ONP: mótmark, mótmarka).

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