[2] kraunk ‘hurtful’: Krankr is a late loan word from Middle Low German, used only here in poetry to mean ‘hurtful, insulting’; otherwise the sense is ‘weak, sick’ (cf. Anon Mey 36/3VII krankar kvinnur ‘sick women’).
References
- Internal references
- Kirsten Wolf (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Heilagra meyja drápa 36’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 914.