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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Þul Skipa 6III/2 — sviptingr ‘reef-point’

Sǫx, stœðingar,         sviptingr ok skaut,
spíkr, siglutré,         saumr, lokstolpar,
laukr, siglutoppr,         lína, eyru,
flaug, flaugarskegg         ok farnagli.

Sǫx, stœðingar, sviptingr ok skaut, spíkr, siglutré, saumr, lokstolpar, laukr, siglutoppr, lína, eyru, flaug, flaugarskegg ok farnagli.

Bow-rails, braces, reef-point and sail’s corner, spike, mast-tree, nail, forecastle-supports, mast, mast-top, anchor-line, ears, flag, flag-beard and vessel-nail.

readings

[2] sviptingr: so all others, ‘[…]ipting’ R

notes

[2] sviptingr (m.) ‘reef-point’: From the weak verb svipta ‘move quickly’ (see AEW: sviptingr for cognates). In Old Norse legal texts, this word could refer to a reef-point, i.e. a horizontal row of ropes across a sail which marks off the section to be taken in, and it could also denote similar bands on a ship’s tent that were used to join the parts of the tent (see NGL V, 622 and Falk 1912, 10, 12). The word does not otherwise occur in skaldic verse.

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