[7] rækyndill ‘the corpse-candle [SWORD]’: On the spelling ræ- (as opposed to hræ-), see first Note to st. 2/10, above. The kenning is paralleled in RvHbreiðm Hl 68/1III, where hjaldrkyndill ‘battle-torch [SWORD]’ occurs, cf. de Vries (1938, 722 n. 78); cf. also hrækerti ‘corpse-candle [SWORD]’ (HjǪ 7/3).
References
- Bibliography
- Vries, Jan de. 1938. Een skald onder de troubadours. Ledeburg, Gent: N. V. Drukkerij Erasmus.
- Internal references
- Kari Ellen Gade 2017, ‘ Rǫgnvaldr jarl and Hallr Þórarinsson, Háttalykill’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1001. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1347> (accessed 3 May 2024)
- Richard L. Harris (ed.) 2017, ‘Hjálmþés saga ok Ǫlvis 7 (Hjálmþér Ingason, Lausavísur 4)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 499.