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Note to Bǫðmóðr Lv 3VIII (Ket 32)

[2] hervígis ‘army-slaughter’: The cpd hervígi can be translated lit. as ‘slaughter/battle (vígi) of an army (herr)’ and is attested in prose texts (Fritzner, ONP: hervígi); a very similar poetic cpd (hervíg) is used in this sense in skaldic poetry from C11th onward (see LP: hervíg). Finnur Jónsson seems to regard hervígis (gen. sg.) as a form of hervíg (LP: hervíg), but Heusler and Ranisch (Edd. Min. 140 and Heggstad et al. 2008: hervíg and hervígi) regard hervíg and hervígi as two separate words; the ONP database regards all occurrences in prose texts as forms of hervígi n.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. 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.
  3. Fritzner = Fritzner, Johan. 1883-96. Ordbog over det gamle norske sprog. 3 vols. Kristiania (Oslo): Den norske forlagsforening. 4th edn. Rpt. 1973. Oslo etc.: Universitetsforlaget.
  4. ONP = Degnbol, Helle et al., eds. 1989-. A Dictionary of Old Norse Prose / Ordbog over det norrøne prosasprog. 1-. Copenhagen: The Arnamagnæan Commission.
  5. Edd. Min. = Heusler, Andreas and Wilhelm Ranisch, eds. 1903. Eddica Minora: Dichtungen eddischer Art aus den Fornaldarsögur und anderen Prosawerken. Dortmund: Ruhfus. Rpt. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.

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