[2] Svipul: Lit. ‘swift one’ (cf. the weak verb svipa ‘move swiftly’; see AEW: svipa 2). This is one of the valkyries mentioned in Anon Darr 3/3V (Nj 55), and the name is also recorded as a battle-heiti (see Note to Þul Orrostu 1/7).
References
- Bibliography
- AEW = Vries, Jan de. 1962. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2nd rev. edn. Rpt. 1977. Leiden: Brill.
- Internal references
- R. D. Fulk (ed.) 2022, ‘Njáls saga 55 (Anonymous Poems, Darraðarljóð 3)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross, Kari Ellen Gade and Tarrin Wills (eds), Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 5. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1303.
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Orrostu heiti 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 786.