[2] Hástigi: Lit. ‘high-stepper’ (from the adj. hár ‘high’ and the agent noun stigi ‘stepper’ from the strong verb stíga ‘step, walk’); the name of a giant-like man in Hjálmþés saga (FSN III, 491, 495-7, 501-4). Hástigi is also a heiti for ‘horse’ (Þul Hesta 3/6).
References
- Bibliography
- FSN = Rafn, Carl Christian, ed. 1829-30. Fornaldar sögur nordrlanda. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Popp.
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Hesta heiti 3’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 937.