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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Þul Ǫrvar 1III/2 — hvítmýlingr ‘white-muzzled one’

Ǫr es ok akka,         oddr, hvítmýlingr,
fenja ok drífa,         Flaug, dynfara,
bǫsl, bǫl, bílda,         broddr ok Hremsa,
gǫgnflaug ok þrǫs,         gǫgn ok skaptsnǫr.

Ǫr es ok akka, oddr, hvítmýlingr, fenja ok drífa, Flaug, dynfara, bǫsl, bǫl, bílda, broddr ok Hremsa, gǫgnflaug ok þrǫs, gǫgn ok skaptsnǫr.

Arrow is also akka, point, white-muzzled one, bristly one and snow-drift, Flaug, noisy-goer, bǫsl, bale, lancet, barb and Hremsa, gain-flight and storm, gains and shaft-quick one.

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[2] hvítmýlingr (m.) ‘white-muzzled one’: A poetic word for ‘arrow’, whose second element is derived from múli m. or múll m. ‘muzzle, the mouth of beasts’, hence ‘one with a bright muzzle (i.e. ‘point’)’ (cf. hvítir broddar ‘white (i.e. bright) points’; see Falk 1914b, 96). See also Note to Gísl Magnkv 13/7II.

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