[3] Herkir: Lit. ‘noise-maker’, from hark n. ‘tumult’. As a giant-name it is mentioned only here, but herkir (as a variant reading of skerkir) is also a heiti for ‘fire’ (see Þul Elds 1/6) and Herkir is the name of a berserk in Gǫngu-Hrólfs saga (ch. 31, FSN III, 326 n. 6). Alternatively, the correct reading may be hriki m. ‘large fellow’ (‘giant’ in Modern Icelandic), but that variant is attested only in C.
References
- Bibliography
- FSN = Rafn, Carl Christian, ed. 1829-30. Fornaldar sögur nordrlanda. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Popp.
- Internal references
- 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Gǫngu-Hrólfs saga’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 298. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=89> (accessed 17 May 2024)
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Elds heiti 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 921.