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Note to Þul Sea-kings 1III

[3] Hœkingr: The name is not found in skaldic kennings, but it appears in the rímur (Finnur Jónsson 1926-8: Hœkingr). As to its possible origin, cf. the pers. n. Hōc in Beowulf l. 1076 (Beowulf 2008, 38). If the correct reading is Hækingr (with <æ> rather than <œ>), however, the name might be derived from Háki, cf. hákr m. ‘glutton’ (Björn Sigfússon 1934, 133; Finnur Jónsson 1934-5, 292). One Hæklingr víkingr is mentioned in Hálfs saga (Hálf, FSN II, 26-7). See also hœkingr ‘hooked one’ among the sword-heiti in Þul Sverða 7/7.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. FSN = Rafn, Carl Christian, ed. 1829-30. Fornaldar sögur nordrlanda. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Popp.
  3. Finnur Jónsson. 1926-8. Ordbog til de af samfund til udg. af gml. nord. litteratur udgivne Rímur samt til de af Dr. O. Jiriczek udgivne Bósarímur. SUGNL 51. Copenhagen: Jørgensen.
  4. Beowulf 2008 = Fulk, Robert D., Robert E. Bjork and John D. Niles, eds. 2008. Klaeber’s Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburg. 4th rev. edn of Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburg, ed. Fr. Klaeber. Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press.
  5. Björn Sigfússon. 1934. ‘Names of Sea-Kings (heiti sækonunga)’. MP 32, 125-42.
  6. Finnur Jónsson. 1934-5. ‘Þulur: Søkonge- og jættenavneremserne’. APS 9, 289-308.
  7. Internal references
  8. 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 303. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=75> (accessed 4 June 2024)
  9. Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Sverða 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. 802.
  10. Not published: do not cite ()

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