[5] kennir þinga ‘master of assemblies [RULER]’: Other possible meanings of kennir are ‘knower, connoisseur’, ‘instructor’ and ‘tester’. It is possible that kennir þinga is a warrior-kenning, since þing ‘assembly’ is occasionally used alone as a half-kenning to refer to battle (see LP: þing 3, and cf. ESk Geisl 29VII malmþings kennir ‘tester of the weapon-meeting [BATTLE > WARRIOR]’).
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
- Martin Chase (ed.) 2007, ‘Einarr Skúlason, Geisli 29’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 30-1.