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Note to Eil Þdr 2III

[7] til kindar Ymsa ‘for the offspring of Ymsi <giant> [GIANT]’: This is the only occurrence of the giant-name Ymsi, which could perhaps be an s-derivative of Ymir or derived from the noun ymr ‘muffled sound’. The Germanic suffix ‑san/sōn was used to derive animal names and personal names; cf. bersi ‘small bear’ and Hrafsi, from the pers. n. Hrafn (further examples in Krahe and Meid 1969, 136). The giant-name Þjazi is one of these derived names (AEW: Þjazi).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. AEW = Vries, Jan de. 1962. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2nd rev. edn. Rpt. 1977. Leiden: Brill.
  3. Krahe, Hans and Wolfgang Meid, eds. 1969. Germanische Sprachwissenschaft III: Wortbildungslehre. 7th edn. Berlin: de Gruyter.
  4. Internal references
  5. (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Hrafns saga Sveinbjarnarsonar in sérstaka’ in Guðrún Nordal (ed.), Poetry on Icelandic History. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 4. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=42> (accessed 3 June 2024)

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