[4] Kýrr: A hap. leg. Presumably a m. form of kýr f. ‘cow’; if so, ‘ox’ (so LP: kýrr; on gender conversion in the þulur, see Gurevich 1992a). The Tˣ variant hýr(r) ‘glad one, mild one’ makes good sense as well, but, like kýrr, it is unattested in other sources. The reading Hýrr was adopted for metrical reasons in Skj B and Skald (see Note to [All] above), but from a metrical point of view that is not necessary.
References
- Bibliography
- Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
- Gurevich, Elena A. 1992a. ‘Skaldische Synonymik und ihre Interpretation in der frühen isländischen gelehrten Poetik: Über eine Systematisierungsmöglichkeit der Heiti in den Þulur’. In Popowa 1992, 15-30.