[4] sædýri ‘the sea-beast [SHIP]’: This term is a hap. leg. in Old Icelandic, although it has currency in later usage and belongs to a common kenning pattern for ‘ship’, in which the determinant is some kind of land animal; cf. Meissner 209-12.
References
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- Meissner = Meissner, Rudolf. 1921. Die Kenningar der Skalden: Ein Beitrag zur skaldischen Poetik. Rheinische Beiträge und Hülfsbücher zur germanischen Philologie und Volkskunde 1. Bonn and Leipzig: Schroeder. Rpt. 1984. Hildesheim etc.: Olms.