Talk:Carpathians

The ON Cognate is actually two words

Okay, so as noted on the ON page already, this word is a Hapax Legomenon so far as I can tell, however, it is not Harvaðafjǫll, but rather Harvaða fjǫll (two words), it appears in chapter 11 of Hervarar Saga ok Heiðreks (see the Perseus link below). But this was not an easy word to find: Zoëga (1910) had nothing on it (unsurprising), de Vries (1977: pp.211, s.v. Harfaðafjǫll) had it spelt incorrectly (very surprising), and pointed to an article from Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum vol. 33, 1889 by Rudolf Much, which in turn pointed to the wrong chapter of Hervarar Saga ok Heiðreks (Much (1889: pp. 6) erroneously cites ch. 8, but it is from ch. 11, again, see Perseus link below). So this is all to say, I will edit this lemma to reflect the correct spelling of the mountains (as two distinct words).

https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2003.02.0020%3Achapter%3D11

I wrote the same comment on the talk page for the ON cognate

Vindafarna (talk) 19:25, 12 August 2022 (UTC)