[4] Ljómi: The name means either ‘glow, gleam’ (cf. ljómi m. ‘glow, gleam’; so Gould 1929, 950) or ‘ray, beam, radiance’ (so Motz 1973, 114). This dwarf-name is not attested elsewhere, but in the þulur ljómi ‘brightness’ is also a heiti for ‘sword’ (see Þul Sverða 6/6). Ljómi is also a personal nickname (Fritzner: ljómi).
References
- Bibliography
- Fritzner = Fritzner, Johan. 1883-96. Ordbog over det gamle norske sprog. 3 vols. Kristiania (Oslo): Den norske forlagsforening. 4th edn. Rpt. 1973. Oslo etc.: Universitetsforlaget.
- Gould, Chester N. 1929. ‘Dwarf-names: A Study in Old Icelandic Religion’. PMLA 44, 938-67.
- Motz, Lotte. 1973. ‘New Thoughts on Dwarf-Names in Old Icelandic’. FS 7, 100-17.
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Sverða heiti 6’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 800.