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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Þul Sverða 5III/6 — huglognir ‘clinch-failer’

Hvati, hǫfuðhvessingr,         hausamølvir,
hræva-Gautr, herbrái         ok hold-Mímir,
bensœgr, brigðir,         Brimir, huglognir,
skyggðir, skreyfir,         skarðr, grindlogi.

Hvati, hǫfuðhvessingr, hausamølvir, hræva-Gautr, herbrái ok hold-Mímir, bensœgr, brigðir, Brimir, huglognir, skyggðir, skreyfir, skarðr, grindlogi.

Quick one, head-sharpener, crusher of skulls, Gautr of corpses, war-shining one and flesh-Mímir, wound-strip, fickle one, Brimir, clinch-failer, polished one, heaper, notched one, gate-flame.

readings

[6] huglognir: ‘huðlognir’ , ‘hv́ðlognir’ A, ‘hudlau[…]nir’ B, ‘hudlaugnir’ 744ˣ

notes

[6] huglognir (m.) ‘clinch-failer’: A cpd not found elsewhere, whose first element is most likely *hugr (cf. hugró ‘clinch-plate’, st. 12/3), a metal clinch on a sword’s hilt. The second element must be an agent noun from a weak verb *logna derived from the p. p. loginn of the strong verb ljúga ‘lie’. Huglognir would then be a sword whose upper clinch was easily broken off (so Falk 1914b, 53; cf. ljúgfengr ‘fail-striking one’, st. 10/5). The , A and B variant húðlognir m. means ‘skin-failer’ (so also the LaufE mss).

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