Note to Þul Óðins 7III
[5] Vakr: Perhaps ‘wakeful one’ or ‘watchful one’. As an Óðinn-heiti the name is otherwise found only in Grí 54/4. Vakr is first of all known as a horse-name, from the adj. vakr ‘alert’ (see Anon Kálfv 2/4 and Þul Hesta 2/5). See also Hrosshársgrani (st. 4/7) and Jálkr in the next line. The very fact that there are names of horses among the Óðinn-heiti may suggest that this was one of the forms in which the god appeared, but there is no direct evidence to support such an assumption (on Óðinn’s association with horses, see Falk 1924, 40 and Turville-Petre 1964, 56-7).
References
- Bibliography
- Turville-Petre, Gabriel. 1964. Myth and Religion of the North. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
- Falk, Hjalmar. 1924. Odensheite. Skrifter utg. av Videnskapsselskapet i Kristiania. II. Hist.-filos. kl. 1924, 10. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.
- Internal references
- Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Kálfsvísa 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. 666.
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Hesta 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. 936.
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