CLAIM / COUNTERCLAIM / LIMITRECORD 562
DISPUTE
RECORD.
One scholarly question. Every attached source. The present editorial state, without pretending the last word has been written.
resolvedestablished
Are the 222 ONP citations a complete Old Norse corpus?
No completeness claim is made. They are the public entry’s current citation set, valuable evidence rather than the set of every surviving occurrence.
WORD UNDER REVIEWDISPUTE 562
fjándi
approx. /ˈfjɑːndi/ · Old Norse masculine noun
Old Norse fjándi is a masculine noun whose inherited shape still exposes a prehistoric agent formation. Cleasby and Vigfússon compare Gothic fiands, Old English feond, German Feind, Swedish fiende, and Danish fjende, identify the nd as participial, and gloss the older formation as properly a hater. They then distinguish the ordinary enemy sense from a post-Christian fiend development. The University of Copenhagen Dictionary of Old Norse Prose supplies 222 citations and six semantic zones: enemy or opponent; devil, monster, or demon; evil spirit; pagan god; the Devil or Satan; and a derogatory term for a hated or bewitched person, animal, or object. Lexicon Poeticum independently exposes 49 poetic records, including source-reported tenth-century enemy uses and later Christian fiend uses, while warning that its concordance and dates require checking. The noun therefore does not possess one timeless true meaning: an inherited lexicalized hater became an ordinary enemy word, and the branch later accumulated several demonic and derogatory senses. The displayed pronunciation is an editorial normalized approximation, not recorded historical audio. No underlying manuscript object is claimed as directly inspected in this dossier.
01DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
1 SOURCES WITH A STANCE
A citation is not a vote. Each record says whether the work supports, challenges, contradicts, or contextualizes the position—and identifies the exact locus used.
SOURCE 01supportshistorical dictionary
Dictionary of Old Norse Prose — fjándi, masculine noun
Supports the bounded claim about ONP’s current evidence set.
Public 222-citation entry and entry-status panel- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Dictionary of Old Norse Prose editors
- YEAR
- 2010
- PUBLISHER
- University of Copenhagen
02 / EDITORIAL STATE
THE CURRENT RECORD IS RESOLVED.
- CONFIDENCE
- established
- STATUS
- resolved
- LEGACY SOURCE SUMMARY
- ONP exposes the count and entry status but does not license universal corpus completeness.
RESOLUTION NOTEThe dossier says 222 citations in ONP, not 222 total historical tokens.