[9] Harðgreipr: Lit. ‘hard-grasping one’. As the name of a giant the cpd occurs only here, but inn harðgreipi ‘the Hard-gripper’ is a nickname in Anon Bjark 2/1. The f. form of this noun, Harðgreip, is the name of a troll-woman or giantess, the daughter of Vagnhǫfði (Þul Trollkvenna 2/6). Because Vagnhǫfði is mentioned in l. 10 below, Harðgreipr is most likely a masculine counterpart of that giantess.
References
- Internal references
- Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Poems, Bjarkamál in fornu 2’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 498.
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Trollkvenna heiti 2’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 725.