Þul Skjaldar 3III/3 — baugr ‘ring’
Yrlygr ok svarmr, eihlífnir, heiðr,
baugr, fagrbláinn, bera, miðfjǫrnir.
Yrlygr ok svarmr, eihlífnir, heiðr, baugr, fagrbláinn, bera, miðfjǫrnir.
Battler and tumult, ever-protector, bright one, ring, fair-dark one, she-bear, mid-helmet.
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[3] baugr (m.) ‘ring’: Baugr ‘ring, circle’ is a heiti for ‘shield’ that is quite common in poetry. It refers to a painted circle on a round shield (around the shield-boss) and came to be used as pars pro toto for the shield itself. Cf. (SnE 1998, I, 67): Á fornum skjǫldum var títt at skrifa rǫnd þá er baugr var kallaðr, ok er við þann baug skildir kendir ‘On ancient shields it was customary to paint a circle, which was called the ring, and shields are referred to in terms of that ring’. Falk (1914b, 140-1), however, argues that the word denotes not a shield-rim but the protecting hand-guard at the center of the shield, but there is no evidence for that assumption.