[1] sýjur ‘the rivetted planks’: Nom. or acc. pl. of sýja ‘rivetting, lit. joining together, sewing’, ship’s planking. Cf. LP: 1. sýja; CVC: sýja ‘the suture of a ship’; Jesch (2001a, 139-40). Used here pars pro toto for a ship. The difference between the two etymologically related words súð and sýja is that ‘súð is the board, sýja the single suture, a súð therefore contains so and so many sýjur’ (CVC: sýja).
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.
- CVC = Cleasby, Richard, Gudbrand Vigfusson [Guðbrandur Vigfússon] and W. A. Craigie. 1957. An Icelandic-English Dictionary. 2nd edn. Oxford: Clarendon.
- Jesch, Judith. 2001a. Ships and Men in the Late Viking Age: The Vocabulary of Runic Inscriptions and Skaldic Verse. Woodbridge: Boydell.