[1] Jali: According to Rygh (1896, 30 n. 3), Jali could have been an old name for Mossesundet in Oslofjorden, the strait which separates Jeløya (Jǫlund; see Þul Eyja 7/4), an island near Moss in Østfold, south-eastern Norway, from the mainland. Munch (1846, 84) identified it as a fjord in the Shetland Islands, namely Yell Sound, the strait between the Shetland mainland and the island of Yell (so also LP: Jali; see Jala ‘Yell’, Þul Eyja 4/8). If the latter interpretation is correct, this would be the only fjord outside Norway listed in this þula.
References
- Bibliography
- LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
- Munch, P. A. 1846. ‘Geographiske bemærkninger, knyttede til et hidtil uudgivet stykke af den yngre Edda’. ÅNOH, 81-96; 365-7.
- Rygh, Oluf. 1896. ‘Norske fjordnavne’. In Sproglig-historiske studier tilegnede Professor C. R. Unger, 30-86.
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Eyja heiti 4’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 977.
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Eyja heiti 7’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 981.