[9] ægir var sollinn ‘the sea was troubled’: Occurring here with sollinn, p. p. of svella ‘swell’ (of the sea), the word ægir, used here as a poetic word for ‘sea’, as often elsewhere, also occurs frequently in poetry and in Skm as the name (Ægir) of a mythical sea-giant, sometimes personifying the sea (see LP: ægir; SnE 1998, II, 439, 527). Cf. the second Note to st. 5/5 below.
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.
- SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Snorri Sturluson, Skáldskaparmál’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=112> (accessed 26 April 2024)