Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Sjóvar heiti 3’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 836.
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gnat (noun n.)
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1. vǫrr (noun m.; °dat. verri; acc. vǫrru): oar-stroke
[1] vǫrr: vǫr all others
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1. mið (noun n.; °-s; -): °midte, det at være/ligge i midten; midtpunkt, centrum; mærke, pejlemærke; betydning; fiskebanke
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vatn (noun n.; °-s; -*): water, lake
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djúp (noun n.; °-s; dat. -um): depth, the deep
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kaf (noun n.; °; *-): deep sea
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vík (noun f.): bay
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tjǫrn (noun f.; °tjarnar; tjarnir): °lille sø, sump, ?mose; pøl, pyt; (for tjara sb. f.)
[4] tjǫrn: ‘t[…]’ B, ‘tio᷎rn’ 744ˣ
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hylr (noun m.; °-jar, dat. -; -ir): pool
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straumr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i/-; -ar): stream, current
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lœkr (noun m.; °-jar, dat. -; -ir): brook, stream
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2. bekkr (noun m.; °-jar/-s, dat. -/-i; -ir): spring
[6] bekkr: ‘[…]eckr’ B, ‘beckr’ 744ˣ
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2. áll (noun m.): channel
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brunnr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): spring, well
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kelda (noun f.; °-u; -ur): [kilde]
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fors (noun m.): torrent
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kíll (noun m.): °bæk, flodarm
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Of the sea-heiti listed in this stanza, gnat n. ‘din’, vika f. ‘sea-mile’ (l. 1), stormr m. ‘storm’ m. (l. 5), iða f. ‘eddy’ and kíll m. ‘creek’ (l. 8) never occur in skaldic poetry as terms for ‘sea’, but gnat appears once in the rímur in a kenning for ‘poetry’ (Finnur Jónsson 1926-8: gnat).
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