[1] Gilling (f.): A hap. leg. According to Rygh (1904, 71), present-day Gillinga, a river on the border between Lom and Vågå in Oppland, Norway. Bugge (1875, 223) identifies ON Gilling as the name of a small river in England, a tributary of the Ouse, but such a river is not mentioned in Ekwall (1928) and it cannot be traced on modern maps. The name seems to be related to the strong verb gjalla ‘resound’ (Finnur Jónsson 1933-4, 266). Cf. also m. Gillingr, the name of a giant (Þul Jǫtna II 2/5).
References
- Bibliography
- Bugge, Sophus. 1875. ‘Biskop Bjarne Kolbeinssøn og Snorres Edda’. ÅNOH, 209-46.
- Finnur Jónsson. 1933-4. ‘Þulur’. APS 8, 262-72.
- Rygh, Oluf. 1904. Norske elvenavne. Efter offentlig foranstaltning utgivne med tilføiede forklaringer af K. Rygh. Kristiania (Oslo): Cammermeyer.
- Ekwall, Ellert. 1928. English River Names. Oxford: Clarendon.
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Jǫtna heiti II 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. 721.