[7] Gota ‘Goti’: The name of Gunnarr’s horse in Vǫlsunga saga (Vǫls ch. 29) and a heiti for ‘horse’ in Þul Hesta 1/7 and Þorgþ I 1/5. The first attestation of this word as a heiti for ‘horse’ occurs in the inscription on the Swedish Rök stone (Run Ög136VI) from c. 850.
References
- Bibliography
- Vǫls = Vǫlsunga saga.
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Þorgrímsþula I 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 670.
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Hesta heiti 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 935.
- Not published: do not cite (Run ÖgVI)
- 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Vǫlsunga saga’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 790. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=10832> (accessed 2 June 2024)