Þul Elds 1III/8 — hrímnir ‘soot-maker’
Gims heiti vilk greppum segja:
Ægis bróðir ok élreka,
eldr, eimr, usli, úði, skerkir,
hrǫtuðr ok hrótgandr, hrímnir, eimi.
Vilk segja greppum heiti gims: bróðir Ægis ok élreka, eldr, eimr, usli, úði, skerkir, hrǫtuðr ok hrótgandr, hrímnir, eimi.
I will tell men the names for blaze: brother of Ægir <sea-giant> and of storm-driver, fire, smoke, conflagration, swarming, noise-maker, stumbler and roof-wolf, soot-maker, vapour.
readings
[8] hrímnir: hrímir B
notes
[8] hrímnir (m.) ‘soot-maker’: The heiti is possibly derived from hrím n. ‘soot’ (cf. the B variant hrímir). Alternatively, hrímnir could be interpreted as ‘noise-maker’; if so, the word is related to hreimr m. ‘scream, cry’. Hrímnir is also the name of a giant (see Þul Jǫtna I 1/5 and Note there) and a heiti for ‘boar’ and ‘hawk’ (Þul Galtar l. 2, Þul Hauks 1/4). The word is never used as a fire-heiti. In RE 1665, this heiti is rendered as ‘Hrymur’, i.e. Hrymr, the name of a giant in Vsp 50/1, which could be a corruption of hrímir (the B variant) but hardly of hrímnir.