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LINGUISTIC INFLUENCES 43
Mil (ibid., p. 84). O.N. litill,
’
little.’
mikle (Three Fragments of
Annals, p. 176). O.N. mikill,
’
much.’
fitft, mrf (tfti, p. 164).* O.N. knue, from knyja, ’to
advance.’
roth* O.N. rauthr,
’
red.’
(6) Gaelic Words in Old Norse Literature. 8
Considering the close connection between Ireland and
Iceland, especially in the tenth and eleventh centuries, it
is surprising that so few Gaelic words found their way
into Old Norse literature. The only Norse words that can
be said, with any certainty, to be derived from Irish, are
the following :
bjannak ( Ynglingasaga,
Heimskringla, ch. 2) : Ir. bennacht,
’
a blessing.’
erg (Orkneyinga Saga, ch. 113) Ir. airghe, (i)
’
a herd of
cattle.’
(2)
’
grazing land.’
1
These annals state that on one occasion (A.D. 869) Cennedigh
of Leix, a brave Irish chieftain, was pursued by the Norsemen, who
"
blew their trumpets and raised angry barbarous shouts, many of
them crying
’
nui, nui.’
"
2
Marstrander (op. cit, p. 156) suggests, however, that voth may be
an archaic form of the Irish ruadh,
’
red.’
3
Cf. \V. A. Craigie : Gaelic Words and Names in the Sagas and
Landndmabok. (Zeilschrift fiir Celtische Philologie, Band I., pp.
439-454)-
A. Bugge : Vesterlandenes Indflydelse paa Nordboernes i Vikinge-
tiden, ch. 9. See especially pp. 358-359.
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