[4] Þjazi: The brother of Gangr and Iði, and his name is used in a kenning for ‘gold’ (Anon Bjark 6/3). Þjazi is the father of Skaði, Njǫrðr’s wife, and the one who compelled Loki to bring him Iðunn and her apples of youth. Þjazi was afterwards killed by Þórr (cf. Þjóð Haustl 1-13; SnE 2005, 23-4; SnE 1998, I, 2, 30-3; Lok 50-1; Hyndl 30/7-10; Hárb 19/1-5, etc.). The origin of the name is unknown.
References
- Bibliography
- SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- SnE 2005 = Snorri Sturluson. 2005. Edda: Prologue and Gylfaginning. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2nd edn. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Internal references
- Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Poems, Bjarkamál in fornu 6’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 503.
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- Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Þjóðólfr ór Hvini, Haustlǫng 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. 432.