[4] hæli ‘woman’: Emended from ms. hæla. This could be the inf. of the verb hæla ‘praise’, but that is difficult to accommodate syntactically here, as hæla takes the dat. of the object praised. Hæli is here understood as dat. sg. of the m. noun hæll, whose usual sense is ‘heel’, but for which an alternative meaning ‘woman, widow’ has been recorded (cf. Þul Kvenna I 1/7III and Note; Anon Stríðk 1III, first Note to l. 8).
References
- Internal references
- Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Poems, Stríðkeravísur 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 628.
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Kvenna heiti 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 772.