[8] flaugardǫrr ‘flighted spears’: Flaug f. means both abstract ‘flight’ and ‘(weather)vane’; in skaldic poetry it usually occurs with a word for ‘missile’ in the gen. pl., e. g. Vígf Hák l. 8I flaug darra ‘flight of spears’ or Hfr ErfÓl 4/3I flaug brodda ‘flight of points’. Here the cpd is the other way around, and the meaning might be ‘spear with a pennant’ or simply ‘flying spear’, i.e. ‘throwing spear’ (so LP (1860): flaug; Hkr 1893-1901, IV and subsequent eds).
References
- Bibliography
- LP (1860) = Sveinbjörn Egilsson, ed. 1860. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis. Copenhagen: Societas Regia antiquariorum septentrionalium.
- Hkr 1893-1901 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1893-1901. Heimskringla: Nóregs konunga sǫgur af Snorri Sturluson. 4 vols. SUGNL 23. Copenhagen: Møller.
- Internal references
- Diana Whaley 2012, ‘ Vígfúss Víga-Glúmsson, Poem about Hákon jarl(?)’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 362. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1499> (accessed 26 April 2024)
- Kate Heslop (ed.) 2012, ‘Hallfreðr vandræðaskáld Óttarsson, Erfidrápa Óláfs Tryggvasonar 4’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 407.