Þul Ásynja 3III/6 — Mardǫll ‘Mardǫll’
Grét ok at Óði gulli Freyja;
heiti eru hennar Hǫrn ok Þrungva,
Sýr, Skjǫlf ok Gefn ok it sama Mardǫll;
dœtr eru hennar Hnoss ok Gersimi.
Freyja grét ok gulli at Óði; heiti hennar eru Hǫrn ok Þrungva, Sýr, Skjǫlf ok Gefn ok it sama Mardǫll; dœtr hennar eru Hnoss ok Gersimi.
Freyja also wept gold for Óðr; her names are Hǫrn and Þrungva, Sýr, Skjálf and Gefn, and likewise Mardǫll; her daughers are Hnoss and Gersimi.
readings
[6] ok it sama Mardǫll: ‘ok híd[…]a mardo᷎ll’ B, ‘ok hið . . ma mardo᷎ll’ 744ˣ, ‘[…]’ R
notes
[6] Mardǫll: The first element in this name is probably marr m. ‘sea’, and the second may be related to the personal names Dalla and Dellingr (see Note to Þul Dverga 3/7); cf. OE deall ‘proud, celebrated’ and MIr. dellrad ‘glitter’ (ÍO: Dalla 3). De Vries (ARG II, 328) believes that the name is connected with Freyja’s precious property, the necklace Brísingamen, and has a parallel in Heimdallr (see Þul Ása I l. 9). However, based on the variant reading ‘Marþavll’ in ms. U(10r) of SnE, Pipping (1925, 6) argues that the second element in this name is identical with þǫll f. ‘fir-tree’; cf. ModIcel. marþöll ‘western hemlock’ (Tsuga heterophylla), a type of fir-tree growing near the sea. Other than in Gylf (SnE 2005, 29), the name occurs only as a determinant in kennings for ‘gold’ of the type tár Mardallar ‘tears of Mardǫll’.