[7] Sívǫr: Lit. ‘one who is always cautious’. Attested in this form only in the present stanza, but cf. Svívǫr, a troll-woman killed by Þórr (Þdís Þórr 2/8; see Note there). The second element ‑vǫr occurs in a number of names for troll-women, e.g. Fjǫlvǫr (l. 4 above), Leirvǫr (st. 5/1) and Skjaldvǫr in Þorsteins þáttr uxafóts (Flat 1860-8, I, 257-60). According to Motz (1981, 504; 1984, 185), ‑vǫr probably means ‘guardian’ in all these names.
References
- Bibliography
- Flat 1860-8 = Gudbrand Vigfusson [Guðbrandur Vigfússon] and C. R. Unger, eds. 1860-8. Flateyjarbók. En samling af norske konge-sagaer med indskudte mindre fortællinger om begivenheder i og udenfor Norge samt annaler. 3 vols. Christiania (Oslo): Malling.
- Motz, Lotte. 1981. ‘Giantesses and Their Names’. FS 15, 495-511.
- 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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