[6, 8] ból hlíðar skipa ‘the dwelling of the hillside of ships [WAVE > SEA]’: Meissner 98 does not acknowledge this as a kenning because either phrase, hlíð skipa ‘the hillside of ships’ or ból skipa ‘the dwelling/home of ships’, can by itself refer to the sea. Finnur Jónsson (1934a, 32) rightly notes, however, that kennings like ból hlíðar skipa ‘the dwelling of the hillside of ships [WAVE > SEA]’ are not unusual in skaldic poetry (see also Skj B; LP: ból). Every attempt at combining ból with other words in the helmingr (Meissner 98; Meissner 1927, 374; NN §573) involves substantial emendation and will therefore not be discussed here.
References
- Bibliography
- Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
- NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- Meissner = Meissner, Rudolf. 1921. Die Kenningar der Skalden: Ein Beitrag zur skaldischen Poetik. Rheinische Beiträge und Hülfsbücher zur germanischen Philologie und Volkskunde 1. Bonn and Leipzig: Schroeder. Rpt. 1984. Hildesheim etc.: Olms.
- 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.
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