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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Þul Sverða 3III/4 — Mistilteinn ‘Mistilteinn’

Lotti, hrǫnduðr,         lǫgðir, mækir,
mǫnduðr, mundriði         ok Mistilteinn,
malmr, þrór ok marr         ok miðfáinn,
Fetbreiðr, grindlogi         ok Fjǫrsváfnir.

Lotti, hrǫnduðr, lǫgðir, mækir, mǫnduðr, mundriði ok Mistilteinn, malmr, þrór ok marr ok miðfáinn, Fetbreiðr, grindlogi ok Fjǫrsváfnir.

Lotti, thruster, stabber, blade, aimer, hand-swinger and Mistilteinn, metal, thriver and striker and one decorated in the middle, Fetbreiðr, gate-flame and Fjǫrsváfnir.

readings

[4] Mistilteinn: ‘mis[…]ilteinn’ B, mistilteinn 744ˣ

notes

[4] Mistilteinn: Lit. ‘mistletoe’. The sword of Sæmingr Arngrímsson in Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks (FSN I, 416), also owned by several other heroes of the fornaldarsögur. The name must have been taken from the myth of Baldr, who was slain by a twig of mistletoe (cf. Vsp 31-3; Gylf, SnE 2005, 45-8). Mistilteinn is not used elsewhere as a heiti for ‘sword’.

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