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Kirsten Wolf: Basic Color Terms in Old Norse-Icelandic
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explanation is neuropsychological and not functional. What Berlin
and Kay predict is that certain color differentiations are more readily
perceived, but not that the environment of use necessarily provides
more regular occasions for using the more salient terms. It should
also be noted that near-synonyms, such as dekkr and myrkr (for svartr
and blár) and Ijóss and fagr (for hvítr) have notbeen included, nor have
the secondary color terms blakkr, hárr, hgss (which occurs only in po-
etry), jarpr, rjóðr, and bleikr. The first five terms are collocationally re-
stricted (Wolf 2006: 179-180), and bleikr should probably be regarded
as a macrocolor covering, at least partly, the category of pale or light
colors (Wolf 2005: 253 and 2006: 187).
The data are drawn from the following texts, which have all been
excerpted (cf. íslenzk fornrit 1933>): Auðunar þáttr vestfirzka (VI), Banda-
manna saga (VII), Bárðar saga Snæfellsáss (XIII), Bergbúa þáttr (XIII), Bjarn-
ar saga Hítdœlakappa (III), Brandkrossa þáttr (XI), Brands þáttr grva (IV),
Draumr Þorsteins Síðu-Hallssonar (XI), Droplaugarsona saga (III), Egils
saga Skalla-Grímssonar (II), Egils þáttr Síðu-Hallssonar (XIII), Eiríks saga
rauða (IV), Eyrbyggja saga (IV), Finnboga saga ramma (XIV), Fljótsdœla
saga (XI), Flóamanna saga (XIII), Fóstbrœðra saga (VI), Gísla saga Súrssonar
(VI), Gísls þáttr Illugasonar (III), Grettis saga (VII), Grœnlendinga saga (IV),
Grœnlendinga þáttr (IV), Gull-Ásu-Þórðar þáttr (XI), Gunnars saga Keldu-
gnúpsfífls (XIV), Gunnars þáttr Þiðrandabana (XI), Gunnlaugs saga orms-
tungu (III), Halldórs þættir Snorrasonar (V), Hallfreðar saga (VIII), Harðar
saga ok Hólmverja (XIII), Hávarðar saga ísfirðings (VI), Heiðarvíga saga (III),
Hrafnkels saga Freysgoða (XI), Hrafns þáttr Guðrúnarsonar (VIII), Hreiðars
þáttr (X), Hrómundar þáttr halta (VIII), Hænsa-Þóris saga (III), Jgkuls þáttr
Búasonar (XIV), Kjalnesinga saga (XIV), Kormáks saga (VIII), Króka-Refs
saga (XIV), Kumlbúa þáttr (XIII) Laxdœla saga (V), Ljósvetninga saga (X),
Njáls saga (XII), Odds þáttr Ófeigssonar (VII), Ófeigs þáttr (X), Orms þáttr
Stórólfssonar (XIII), Reykdœla saga ok Víga-Skútu (X), Sneglu-Halla þáttr
(IX), Stjgrnu-Odda draumr (XIII), Stúfs þáttr (V), Svarfdœla saga (IX), Sgrla
þáttr (X), Þórarins þáttr Nefjólfssonar (XIII), Þórðar saga hreðu (XIV), Þor-
gríms þáttr Hallasonar (IX), Þorleifs þáttr jarlsskálds (IX), Þormóðar þáttr
(VI), Þorskfirðinga saga (XIII), Þorsteins saga hvíta (IX), Þorsteins saga
Síðu-Hallssonar (XI), Þorsteins þáttr Austfirðings (XI), Þorsteins þáttr for-
vitna (XIII), Þorsteins þáttr stangarhgggs (XI), Þorsteins þáttr sggufróða (XI),
Þorsteins þáttr tjaldstœðings (XIII), Þorsteins þáttr uxafóts (XIII), Þorvalds
þáttr tasalda (IX), Þorvarðar þáttr krákunefs (VI), Valla-Ljóts saga (IX), Vápn-
firðinga saga (XI), Vatnsdœla saga (VIII), Víga-Glúms saga (IX), Víglundar
saga (XIV), Qgmundar þáttr dytts (IX), and Qlkofra þáttr (XI).