[6] bjúgviðum hausa ‘the curved trees of skulls [DRINKING HORNS]’: A kenning for a drinking horn with a comparable base-word, viðr róta eyrna ‘tree of the roots of the ears [HEAD > DRINKING HORN]’, occurs in Egill Lv 5/3, 4V (Eg 9); cf. de Vries (1964-7, II, 40 n. 68).
References
- Bibliography
- Vries, Jan de. 1964-7. Altnordische Literaturgeschichte. 2 vols. 2nd edn. Grundriss der germanischen Philologie 15-16. Berlin: de Gruyter.
- Internal references
- Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2022, ‘Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar 9 (Egill Skallagrímsson, Lausavísur 5)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross, Kari Ellen Gade and Tarrin Wills (eds), Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 5. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 179.