Þul Dverga 3III/7 — Dellingr ‘Dellingr’
Alþjófr, Austri, Aurvargr ok Dúfr,
Ái, Andvari, Ǫnn, Draupnir,
Dóri ok Dagfinnr, Dulinn ok Ónarr,
Alfr ok Dellingr, Óinn ok Dúrnir.
Alþjófr, Austri, Aurvargr ok Dúfr, Ái, Andvari, Ǫnn, Draupnir, Dóri ok Dagfinnr, Dulinn ok Ónarr, Alfr ok Dellingr, Óinn ok Dúrnir.
Alþjófr, Austri, Aurvargr and Dúfr, Ái, Andvari, Ǫnn, Draupnir, Dóri and Dagfinnr, Dulinn and Ónarr, Álfr and Dellingr, Óinn and Dúrnir.
readings
[7] Dellingr: ‘[…]llingr’ B, ‘dellinngr’ 744ˣ
notes
[7] Dellingr: In Vafþr 25/1-2 this is the name of the father of Dagr (dagr ‘day’), who, according to Gylf (SnE 2005, 13), was of the race of the Æsir. That Dellingr is probably the one who is mentioned in Hávm 160/2-3 (NK 44): gól Þióðrørir, | dvergr, fyr Dellings durom ‘Þjóðrørir, the dwarf, chanted before Dellingr’s doors’. Here fyr Dellings durom ‘before Dellingr’s doors’ probably means ‘before daybreak’. See LP: Dellingr, and cf. the same line in Gestumbl Heiðr 8/3VIII (Heiðr 55) (repeated in subsequent stanzas). It could be that Dellingr in Hávm 160/3 at some point was misinterpreted as the name of a dwarf, which also appears in Fj 34/5 (see S-G I, 159, 419). The name has been explained as ‘gleaming one’ (Gould 1929, 943) or ‘glowing one’, cognate with MIr. dellrad ‘glow’ (Motz 1973, 113), but de Vries (AEW: Dellingr, Dalla) connects it with OE deall ‘proud, eminent’. See also Note to Mardǫll in Þul Ásynja 3/6.