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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Þul Sverða 8III/7 — helsingr ‘long-neck’

Logi ok mundgjallr,         langhvass ok eldr,
ǫrn ok œgir         ok naglfari,
brigðir, mǫrnir,         blær ok skerðir,
hyrr ok helsingr,         hríðir, atti.

Logi ok mundgjallr, langhvass ok eldr, ǫrn ok œgir ok naglfari, brigðir, mǫrnir, blær ok skerðir, hyrr ok helsingr, hríðir, atti.

Flame and hand-ringing one, long-sharp one and fire, eagle and frightener and nail-studded one, fickle one, crusher, blær and diminisher, blaze and long-neck, stormer, inciter.

readings

[7] helsingr: ‘[…]sinngr’ B, ‘helsinngr’ 744ˣ

notes

[7] helsingr (m.) ‘long-neck’: Cf. helsingr ‘barnacle goose’ (Þul Fugla 1/4). The word could be identical with Helsingjar, the people of Hälsingland (ON Helsingjaland) in Sweden, and hence ‘Helsingja-sword’ (OE Hælsingas; AEW: helsingr). Alternatively, it could have been derived directly from hals m. ‘neck’. Falk (1914b, 51) suggests that the heiti might come from a pers. n. or a nickname (cf. Þórir helsingr in Hkr, ÍF 28, 371). As a term for ‘sword’ it is not found elsewhere.

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