[8] landreki ‘land-ruler’: This could be regarded as a borderline kenning. Meissner (p. 353) points out that it is perceived as a kenning, but comes to be used as the base-word of a kenning, an example being ESk Hardr II 1/6, 8, where it is qualified by Dana ‘of Danes’. It also occurs among heiti for ‘king’ in Þul Konunga 2/6III, and Þjóðólfr uses the word in Sex 9, 15 and 27.
References
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Konunga 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. 689.
- Diana Whaley (ed.) 2009, ‘Þjóðólfr Arnórsson, Sexstefja 9’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 121-2.