Þul Ǫrvar 1III/5 — bǫsl ‘bǫsl’
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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[5] bǫsl (f.): The meaning of the word may be ‘little twig’ (< Gmc *basulō; cf. basinn as a heiti for ‘tree’ (Þul Viðar 1/6) and New Norw. base ‘bush’; see Falk 1914b, 99-100). Alternatively, bǫsl (< bǫstl), may be derived from bast n. ‘string’ with the suffix ‑ul-, and hence ‘sth. put onto or thrown from a string’, i.e. ‘arrow’ (so Sturtevant 1926, 370).