[1-2] svanni, vænstr svanna ‘a woman, the most beautiful of women’: For svanni lit. ‘clever, wise’, see AEW: svanni and Note to Þul Kvenna I 1/1. This is a m. noun; hence vænstr m. nom. sg. ‘the most beautiful’. The <v> in vænstr is no longer visible, but it has been supplied by earlier eds.
References
- Bibliography
- AEW = Vries, Jan de. 1962. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2nd rev. edn. Rpt. 1977. Leiden: Brill.
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Kvenna heiti 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 772.