[1] Kǫttr: Lit. ‘cat’ (m.). In a myth related in Gylf (SnE 2005, 41-2), Þórr tries to lift up the giant’s cat (actually Miðgarðsormr ‘the World Serpent’) in the hall of Útgarðaloki. In HHund I 18/8, kǫttr is a giant-heiti most likely used as a common noun (sonr kattar ‘son of a giant’). See also HálfdEyst (FSN III, 556-8).
References
- Bibliography
- FSN = Rafn, Carl Christian, ed. 1829-30. Fornaldar sögur nordrlanda. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Popp.
- SnE 2005 = Snorri Sturluson. 2005. Edda: Prologue and Gylfaginning. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2nd edn. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- HálfdEyst = Hálfdanar saga Eysteinssonar.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Snorri Sturluson, Gylfaginning’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=113> (accessed 15 May 2024)
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