Þul Fugla 3III
Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Fugla 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. 954.
Svǫrr ‘Svǫrr’
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svǫrr (noun m.): [bird]
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[1] svǫrr: This bird has not been identified. The name is possibly related to the weak verb svarra ‘roar, make noise’. Alternatively it may be interpreted as ‘roaming one’ (der umherstreifende, AEW: svarr; cf. New Norw. svarra ‘soar, wander’). The heiti occurs in kennings for ‘raven’ (LP: svǫrr).
storkr ‘stork’
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storkr (noun m.; °-s): °stork
súla ‘gannet’
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súla (noun f.; °-u; -ur): °stolpe, søjle; halskrave på husdyr
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[1] súla (f.) ‘gannet’: The northern gannet (Sula bassana or Morus bassanus), a large, mostly white seabird.
svarr ‘svarr’
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svarr (noun m.)
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[2] svarr: Perhaps the same word as svǫrr. See Note to l. 1.
skjór ‘magpie’
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skjór (noun f.): °skade
sparrhaukr ‘sparrow hawk’
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sparrhaukr (noun m.)
stelkr ‘redshank’
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stelkr (noun m.)
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[3] stelkr (m.) ‘redshank’: A wader with orange legs (Tringa totanus).
spǫrr ‘sparrow’
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1. spǫrr (noun m.; °sparrar): °spurv
svala ‘swallow’
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1. svala (noun f.; °*-u): °svale
steindelfr ‘wheatear’
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steindelfr (noun m.)
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[4] steindelfr (m.) ‘wheatear’: A hap. leg. This is most likely the same bird as ModIcel. steindepill ‘wheatear’ (Oenanthe oenanthe).
spiki ‘spiki’
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spiki (noun m.)
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[4] spiki (m.): The name is not used in Iceland and in the present list it seems to be a loanword from mainland Scandinavian (cf. New Norw. spikkje, ModSwed. dialects spikke ‘sparrow’), perhaps connected with Engl. spink, another name for the chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs).
skúfr ‘skua’
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2. skúfr (noun m.): [skua]
spói ‘curlew’
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spói (noun m.; °; -ar): °(regn)spove
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[5] spói (m.) ‘curlew’: The Eurasian curlew (Numenius arquata), a wader.
sæðingr ‘gull’
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sæðingr (noun m.): [seagull, gulls]
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[5] sæðingr (m.) ‘gull’: This term for ‘gull’ is probably derived from sáð, sæði ‘seed’ (ÍO: sæðingur), denoting a bird that eats seed (‘seed-eater’) among other things.
skarfr ‘cormorant’
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1. skarfr (noun m.; °-s; -ar): °skarv
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
svartbakr ‘great black-backed gull’
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svartbakr (noun m.)
skeglingr ‘young kittiwake’
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skeglingr (noun m.)
skíði ‘skíði’
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1. skíði (noun n.): sheath
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[7] skíði (m.): This is a hap. leg. and an obscure word, which is possibly related to skíð f. ‘wooden stick’ or ‘ski’.
skjǫldungr ‘shelduck’
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skjǫldungr (noun m.): king
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[8] skjǫldungr (m.) ‘shelduck’: A duck (Tadorna tadorna), see st. 7/3 below.
pái ‘peacock’
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pái (noun m.): °pave
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Of twenty bird-names listed in this stanza only six (svǫrr l. 1, spǫrr m. ‘sparrow’, svala f. ‘swallow’ l. 3, skúfr m. ‘skua’, sæðingr m. ‘gull’ l. 5 and skarfr m. ‘cormorant’ l. 6) occur in skaldic poetry. Cf. the similar selection and arrangement of heiti according to alliteration in Þul Skipa 5. — [5-6]: Four of five bird-names in these two lines are terms for seabirds, mostly gulls, namely, skúfr m. (= ModIcel. skúmr) ‘skua’ or ‘brown gull’ (Stercorarius skua; l. 5), sæðingr m. ‘gull’ (l. 5), skarfr m. ‘cormorant’ (l. 6) and svartbakr m. ‘great black-backed gull’ (Larus marinus; l. 6).
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