[5] †armlod gellr† ‘…’: Skj B does not attempt reconstruction of these lines. The second word, gellr, is the 3rd pers. sg. pres. indic. of gjalla ‘scream, shriek’, but the first cannot be normalised to a known Old Norse word. Bugge (Heiðr 1873) suggested emendation to arnhlióð ‘eagle-shriek’, which has also been adopted (with variant spellings) in Skald, Edd. Min. and Heiðr 1960. This word is unattested but has a parallel in varg(h)ljóð ‘wolf-howl’ (Fritzner: vargljóð; LP: varghljóð), found in HHund I 41/3 (NK 136); Bugge (Heiðr 1873, 245 n. 2) also compares vápnhljóð ‘weapon-sound’, see e.g. Okík Magn 1/4II.
References
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- Internal references
- Not published: do not cite ()
- Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Oddr kíkinaskáld, Poem about Magnús góði 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 32.