[2] Hengikepta: Or Hengikjapta (so C, B). Lit. ‘one with a dewlap or drooping jaw’ (cf. hengi- ‘hanging’, a prefix in compounds (CVC: hengi-), and kjaptr m. ‘mouth, jaw’). This must be the same as the troll-woman Hengjankjapta, who, according to Þdís Þórr 2/5, was killed by Þórr. Cf. also Skitinkjapta ‘Dirty-jaw’ and Gullkjapta ‘Gold-jaw’ in Vilhjálms saga sjóðs (Loth 1962-5, IV, 66-7).
References
- Bibliography
- CVC = Cleasby, Richard, Gudbrand Vigfusson [Guðbrandur Vigfússon] and W. A. Craigie. 1957. An Icelandic-English Dictionary. 2nd edn. Oxford: Clarendon.
- Loth, Agnete, ed. 1962-5. Late Medieval Icelandic Romances. 5 vols. EA B 20-4. Copenhagen: Munksgaard.
- Internal references
- Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Þorbjǫrn dísarskáld, Poem about Þórr 2’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 471.
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