[3] ægisheimi (dat. sg.) ‘terrible world’: A hap. leg., perhaps calqued on œgishjálmr lit. ‘helmet of terror’, the helmet owned by Fáfnir in Fáfn 16, 17, and related to œgir (LP: skrækindjager ‘one who induces terror’).
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
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