Note to Þul Óðins 5^III

[5] Bileygr: Lit. ‘one with unsteady eyes’, i.e. ‘weak-sighted’ (according to CVC, bil in poetic compounds means ‘failure, fear, giving way’). The second element is the adj. eygr ‘with eyes of a certain kind’. This name makes a pair with Báleygr ‘fiery-eyed one’ (st. 6/3 below). Cf. the two brothers Bolwisus and Bilwisus (a synonym of Bileygr) in Saxo (Saxo 2005, I, 7, 7, 11, pp. 472-3). These were King Sigar’s counsellors, one good and one evil, and they have been regarded as two different representations of Óðinn. Óðinn appears among humans as one-eyed (einsýnn) and weak-sighted (augdapr), but as fiery-eyed when in the god’s shape (Falk 1924, 4). Other than in the present þula, the name Bileygr occurs only in Grí 47/4.

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