Note to Þul Dverga 3III
[2] Aurvargr: An otherwise unattested cpd. Gould (1929, 942) interprets this name as ‘gravel-outlaw’, while Motz (1973, 113) translates it as ‘muddy wolf’ (from aurr m. ‘gravel, mud’ and vargr m. ‘wolf, outlaw’). This is perhaps a variant of the dwarf-name Aurvangr ‘gravelly plain’ or ‘mud field’ (the second element from vangr m. ‘plain’) recorded in Vsp 13/7, which is the form given in Skj B and Skald. The latter is most likely derived from Aurvangar pl. ‘mud-fields’, the mythical land of the elves (see Gylf, SnE 2005, 16 and Aurvanga siǫt ‘home of mud-fields’ in Vsp 14/7 (NK 4)).
References
- Bibliography
- Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- NK = Neckel, Gustav and Hans Kuhn (1899), eds. 1983. Edda: Die Lieder des Codex Regius nebst verwandten Denkmälern. 2 vols. I: Text. 5th edn. Heidelberg: Winter.
- SnE 2005 = Snorri Sturluson. 2005. Edda: Prologue and Gylfaginning. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2nd edn. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Gould, Chester N. 1929. ‘Dwarf-names: A Study in Old Icelandic Religion’. PMLA 44, 938-67.
- Motz, Lotte. 1973. ‘New Thoughts on Dwarf-Names in Old Icelandic’. FS 7, 100-17.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Snorri Sturluson, Gylfaginning’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=113> (accessed 6 April 2025)
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