[5] andalausir ‘without breath’: See Note to Heiðr 54/3. Plays on the fact that the bellows do have ‘breath’, but not of their own; rather only ‘when they are inflated’, as the solution suggests. Skall Lv 2/8V (Eg 3) describes bellows as vindfrekr ‘greedy for wind’.
References
- Internal references
- Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 54 (Gestumblindi, Heiðreks gátur 7)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 416.
- Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2022, ‘Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar 3 (Skallagrímr Kveldúlfsson, Lausavísur 2)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross, Kari Ellen Gade and Tarrin Wills (eds), Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 5. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 166.