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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to FriðÞ Lv 30VIII (Frið 36)

[13] Valþjófr ‘(“Slain men-thief”)’: The first element of this name is understood here to derive from valr ‘the dead slain in battle’, but it may possibly derive from val ‘choice’ or val- ‘foreign’ (cf. Bugge 1890, 230). On the name and its likely connotations in Anglo-Norman, see Edmonds (2015).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Bugge, Sophus. 1890. ‘Bidrag til nordiske Navnes Historie’. ANF new ser. 6, 225-45.
  3. Edmonds, Fiona. 2015. ‘Norse Influence in North-West England: Jocelin of Furness’s Interpretation of the Name Waltheof’. The Journal of Scottish Name Studies 9, 43-62.

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