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Note to Þul Bjarnar 1III

[12] ifjungr (m.) ‘hooded one’: Ifjungr ‘hooded one’ is also a heiti for ‘hawk’ (Þul Hauks 2/3, see Note there). As applied to a bear, the meaning of this heiti is not clear, and several tentative interpretations have been suggested: ‘hooded one’; ‘haltered one’; ‘unreliable one’ (Falk 1925a, 243; SnE 1998, II, 328). Ifjungr is otherwise not attested in poetry as a heiti for ‘hawk’ or ‘bear’.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
  3. Falk, Hjalmar. 1925a. ‘Die altnordischen Namen der Beizvögel’. In Germanica: Eduard Sievers zum 75. Geburtstage 25. November 1925. Halle (Saale): Niemeyer, 236-46.
  4. Internal references
  5. Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Hauks heiti 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. 943.

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