[11] jalfuðr (m.) ‘roarer’: Or jǫlfuðr. The word seems to be derived from a weak verb *jalfa ‘make noise’ (formed from jálfr or jálmr m. ‘noise’) with the suffix ‑uðr, hence ‘roarer’ (AEW: jǫlfuðr). Cf. also the Óðinn name Jǫlfǫðr (Þul Óðins 8/4, see Note there). For a different interpretation, see Falk (1928a, 321-4). See also ÍO: Jálfaður 2; jölfuður.
References
- Bibliography
- AEW = Vries, Jan de. 1962. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2nd rev. edn. Rpt. 1977. Leiden: Brill.
- ÍO = Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon. 1989. Íslensk orðsifjabók. Reykjavík: Orðabók Háskólans.
- Falk, Hjalmar. 1928a. ‘Ordstudier I’. ANF 44, 315-24.
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Óðins nǫfn 8’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 751.