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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to ǪlvH Lv 1VIII (HjǪ 17)

[5] hýsnoppu ‘downy-snouted [girl]’: This cpd noun, lit. ‘down-snout’ is a hap. leg., though its components are recorded elsewhere as simplices (cf. ONP: , snoppa). LP: hýsnoppa explains the cpd as referring to a woman with down on her lip, implying masculinisation, but the insult goes further, because snoppa ‘snout’ often refers to the snouts of animals. The cpd snoppulangr ‘long-snout’ occurs as a man’s nickname (cf. ONP: snoppulangr).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. 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.
  3. ONP = Degnbol, Helle et al., eds. 1989-. A Dictionary of Old Norse Prose / Ordbog over det norrøne prosasprog. 1-. Copenhagen: The Arnamagnæan Commission.

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