Barð, kné, byrði, belti ok kinnungr,
kjǫlborð, keili ok kjǫlsýja,
kraptar, kerling, klœr ok þoptur,
kalreip, þrimir, klofar ok þiljur.
Barð, kné, byrði, belti ok kinnungr, kjǫlborð, keili ok kjǫlsýja, kraptar, kerling, klœr ok þoptur, kalreip, þrimir, klofar ok þiljur.
Prow, knee, boarding, belt and bow, keelboard, mast-wedge and garboard, bollards, keelson, claws and rowing-benches, tack, gunwales, cleats and decking.
[4] kjǫlsýja (f.) ‘garboard’: Lit. ‘keel-suture’ (cf. sýjur ‘clenchings’ in st. 5/3 above). The second element of this word is spelled (normalised) ‑sýgja in R and Tˣ (cf. ModIcel. kjalsýgja, kjalsíða, kjalsúla ‘garboard’, Sigfús Blöndal 1920-4, Tavle II C, no. 13). For ModEngl. garboard, the first range of planks laid upon a ship’s bottom, next to the keel’, see OED: garboard, n. Like kjǫlborð (see l. 3 above), kjǫlsýja is the term for the plank next to the keel (Falk 1912, 52). The word does not occur elsewhere in poetry.