[6] burst ‘bristles’: A hap. leg. in poetry. In the sense ‘the bristles on a boar’s back’, as here, the f. sg. noun is used collectively (ONP: burst 1).
References
- Bibliography
- ONP = Degnbol, Helle et al., eds. 1989-. A Dictionary of Old Norse Prose / Ordbog over det norrøne prosasprog. 1-. Copenhagen: The Arnamagnæan Commission.