[2] valamálm ‘costly metal’: The same cpd occurs in Hyndl 9/2. The first element, vala-, may derive from the gen. pl. of Valir ‘Celtic southerners, French people’, in the sense ‘exotic, foreign, costly’ or from velja ‘choose’ (cf. LP: valamálmr), in the sense ‘choice, selected’.
References
- Bibliography
- 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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