[6] hástigi (m.) ‘high-stepper’: From the adj. hár ‘high’ and the strong verb stíga. As a horse-heiti, the word occurs only in the present þula. Hástigi is also the name of a giant-like man in Hjálmþés saga (FSN III, 491, 495-7, 501-4) and a heiti for ‘giant’ (see Note to Þul Jǫtna I 2/2).
References
- Bibliography
- FSN = Rafn, Carl Christian, ed. 1829-30. Fornaldar sögur nordrlanda. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Popp.
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Jǫtna heiti I 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. 709.