[8] grafsilfrs ‘of engraved silver’: This determinant of a woman-kenning is not recorded elsewhere, but makes sense considering the requirements of metre and alliteration. The p. p. grafinn (from grafa ‘dig’, but here with the sense as given in LP: grafa 5 udskåren ‘engravedʼ) appears in combination with a selection of decorated objects in skaldic verse: e.g. grǫfnum hjǫlmum ‘with engraved helmets’ Þhorn Harkv 19/9I.
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.
- Internal references
- R. D. Fulk (ed.) 2012, ‘Þorbjǫrn hornklofi, Haraldskvæði (Hrafnsmál) 19’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 113.