[4] gljúfrskeljungs ‘of the gully-whale [GIANT]’: The cpd is a hap. leg. but its referent is not in doubt. Gljúfr is a wild ravine or gully through which rivers flow, while skeljungr is a kind of whale, possibly a humpback; the word occurs in Þul Hvala 2/3 and in Konungs skuggsjá (Holm-Olsen 1983, 16). For giant-kennings with base-words meaning ‘whale’, see Meissner 258-9.
References
- Bibliography
- Meissner = Meissner, Rudolf. 1921. Die Kenningar der Skalden: Ein Beitrag zur skaldischen Poetik. Rheinische Beiträge und Hülfsbücher zur germanischen Philologie und Volkskunde 1. Bonn and Leipzig: Schroeder. Rpt. 1984. Hildesheim etc.: Olms.
- Holm-Olsen, Ludvig, ed. 1983. Konungs skuggsiá. 2nd rev. edn. Norrøne tekster 1. Oslo: Norsk historisk kjeldeskrift-institutt.
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Hvala heiti 2’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 859.
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