[6] aldrnari (m.) ‘life-nourisher’: Cf. OE ealdorneru ‘life’s salvation’ (DOE: ealdor-neru ‘life’s safety, asylum, salvation’). See also OS lifnara ‘nourishment (to sustain life), food’. It has been argued that this poetic name for ‘fire’ expresses the idea of vitality connected with burning flames (cf. the story of Norna-Gestr; see Falk 1928a, 320-1). The heiti occurs only in the present þula, in RE 1665 (‘Aldurnare’) and in Vsp 57/6 (see Dronke 1997, 151). Cf. also fœðir ‘feeder’ (st. 2/7 above).