This interface will soon cease to be publicly available. Use the new interface instead. Click here to switch over now.

Cookies on our website

We use cookies on this website, mainly to provide a secure browsing experience but also to collect statistics on how the website is used. You can find out more about the cookies we set, the information we store and how we use it on the cookies page.

Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages
login: password: stay logged in: help

mobile home

Note to stanza

3. Anonymous Þulur, 13. Ása heiti II, 1 [Vol. 3, 761]

[7] Njǫrðr: In the present þula, as in Skm (SnE 1998, I, 1), Njǫrðr is listed among the gods of the Æsir family, although he is one of the Vanir, the family of the deities of fertility (Gylf, SnE 2005, 23). Cf. the name of the Germanic goddess Nerthus, whose cult is described by Tacitus (see ARG I, 467-72, II, 163-5, 203-4). See also Vafþr 38, Grí 16, Lok 33-6, Gylf (SnE 2005, 23-4), Skm (SnE 1998, I, 2-3, 18), as well as Yng (ch. 4, ÍF 26, 12-13). His name is widely used as a base-word in kennings for ‘man’.

references

ÍF 26-8 = Bjarni Aðalbjarn… ∙ is referred to in ∙ Þul Ása II 1, n. 7 (SkP 3)

SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluso… ∙ is referred to in ∙ Þul Ása II 1, n. 7 (SkP 3)

SnE 2005 = Snorri Sturluso… ∙ is referred to in ∙ Þul Ása II 1, n. 7 (SkP 3)

ARG = Vries, Jan de. 1956-7. Altg… ∙ is referred to in ∙ Þul Ása II 1, n. 7 (SkP 3)

Skáldskaparmál ∙ is referred to in ∙ Þul Ása II 1, n. 7 (SkP 3)

Gylfaginning ∙ is referred to in ∙ Þul Ása II 1, n. 7 (SkP 3)

Ynglinga saga ∙ is referred to in ∙ Þul Ása II 1, n. 7 (SkP 3)

Edda, Grí ∙ is referred to in ∙ Þul Ása II 1, n. 7 (SkP 3)

Edda, Lok ∙ is referred to in ∙ Þul Ása II 1, n. 7 (SkP 3)

Edda, Vafþr ∙ is referred to in ∙ Þul Ása II 1, n. 7 (SkP 3)

mobile home

© Skaldic Project Academic Body, unless otherwise noted. Database structure and interface developed by Tarrin Wills. All users of material on this database are reminded that its content may be either subject to copyright restrictions or is the property of the custodians of linked databases that have given permission for members of the skaldic project to use their material for research purposes. Those users who have been given access to as yet unpublished material are further reminded that they may not use, publish or otherwise manipulate such material except with the express permission of the individual editor of the material in question and the General Editor of the volume in which the material is to be published. Applications for permission to use such material should be made in the first instance to the General Editor of the volume in question. All information that appears in the published volumes has been thoroughly reviewed. If you believe some information here is incorrect please contact Tarrin Wills with full details.