Þul Fugla 2III
Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Fugla 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. 953.
Óðinshani ‘Red-necked phalarope’
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óðinshani (noun m.)
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[1] óðinshani (m.) ‘red-necked phalarope’: Phalaropus lobatus. The name translates as ‘Óðinn’s rooster’ (see also Notes to st. 4/1 kjalarfugl and st. 5/4).
alka ‘auk’
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alka (noun f.)
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[1] alka (f.) ‘auk’: Alca torda. This is the same bird as tyrðilmúli ‘razorbill’ (st. 4/6).
ǫnd ‘duck’
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1. ǫnd (noun f.): duck
hrossagaukr ‘snipe’
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hrossagaukr (noun m.)
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[2] hrossagaukr (m.) ‘snipe’: Lit. ‘horses’ cuckoo’, the name given to the common snipe (Gallinago gallinago) because of its neighing cry (see CVC: gaukr).
hrafn ‘raven’
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hrafn (noun m.; °hrafns; dat. hrafni; hrafnar): raven
hœns ‘poultry’
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hœns (noun n.; °-; -): °høne, (I) høns
himbrin ‘great northern diver’
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himbrin (noun n.)
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[3] himbrin (n.) ‘great northern diver’: In ModIcel. himbrimi (Colymbus glacialis) ‘the great northern diver’ (Bjarni Sæmundsson 1936, 668).
hryggjarstykki ‘hryggjarstykki’
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hryggjarstykki (noun n.)
heri ‘heri’
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2. heri (noun m.; °; -ar): °hyrde
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[5] heri: Not otherwise attested as a bird-name, and probably not the same word as ON heri m. ‘hare’. See also Þul Dverga 5/7.
hani ‘rooster’
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hani (noun m.; °-a; -ar): rooster
hœna ‘hen’
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1. hœna (noun f.; °-u): hen
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
hilduri ‘hilduri’
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hilduri (noun m.)
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[6] hilduri: This is a hap. leg. and an obscure word.
úfr ‘eagle-owl’
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1. úfr (noun m.; °; -ar): eagle-owl
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[7] úfr (m.) ‘eagle-owl’: The Eurasian eagle-owl (Buba buba), one of the largest species of owl.
valr ‘falcon’
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2. valr (noun m.; °-s): falcon
smyrill ‘merlin’
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smyrill (noun m.; °; -smyrlar): °dværgfalk, stenfalk
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[7] smyrill (m.) ‘merlin’: Falco columbarius, a small falcon.
ugla ‘owl’
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1. ugla (noun f.; °-u; -ur): owl
skurfir ‘skurfir’
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skurfir (noun m.)
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[8] skurfir (m.): A hap. leg. It is not clear what kind of bird this is, but skurfir is perhaps related to skarfr ‘cormorant’ (ÍO: skurfir; see st. 3/6 below); if so, skurfir may mean ‘cormorant’, Phalacrocorax carbo (Bjarni Sæmundsson 1936, 503). In Skj B and Skald, the heiti is spelled skyrfir.
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Of the seventeen heiti listed in this stanza, only three (hrafn m. ‘raven’ l. 3, hani m. ‘rooster’ l. 5 and valr m. ‘falcon’ l. 7) occur in skaldic poetry.
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