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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Hjǫrleifr Lv 1VIII (Hálf 3)

[7] gyrja ‘stain’: This verb is a hap. leg. and is thought to be related to gor ‘half-digested stomach contents, cud of an animal’, deriving from a root  gher- ‘hot, warm’ (see Pokorny 1959, 493-5); the meaning ‘singe, burn’ seems equally possible.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Pokorny, Julius. 1959. Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. Bern: Francke.

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