[1] val- ‘stallion’: Kˣ’s reading ‘valc-’ (normalised válk- ‘tossing’) is attractive but clearly secondary and fails to produce the base-word required by the ship-kenning. On valr in ship-kennings, see Note to Arn Hryn 19/4. — [3] skeiðr ‘warships’: On the monosyllabic pl., see Note to ÞjóðA Magnfl 12/7.
References
- Internal references
- Diana Whaley (ed.) 2009, ‘Arnórr jarlaskáld Þórðarson, Hrynhenda, Magnússdrápa 19’ 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, p. 205.
- Diana Whaley (ed.) 2009, ‘Þjóðólfr Arnórsson, Magnússflokkr 12’ 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. 78-80.