[2] eggþrumu ‘blade-thunder [BATTLE]’: The cpd eggþruma is a hap. leg, but it has a close parallel and synonym in eggþrima (LP: eggþrima, 2. egg and egg-, 2. þruma); both egg ‘cutting edge, blade’ and þruma ‘thunder, noise’ are well-attested as determinant and base-word respectively of kennings for ‘battle’. Cf. Ket 4/6 and Note.
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.
- Internal references
- Beatrice La Farge (ed.) 2017, ‘Ketils saga hœngs 4 (Gusi finnakonungr, Lausavísur 2)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 555.