Note to Þul Jarðar 1^III

[2] Hlóðyn: A name for Jǫrð, mother to Þórr and consort to Óðinn (Vsp 56/2; Gylf, SnE 2005, 52 – in the latter the name is rendered as Hlǫðyn). The origin of this name is uncertain. It is possibly the same as Hludana, an Old Germanic (earth?)-deity of the Lower Rhine, named in five inscriptions from the C2nd and C3rd AD. If so, the name could have been a loanword from Old Frisian (see ARG II, 321-2; AEW: Hlóðyn). Alternatively, Hlóðyn is explained as < *hlōþa-winjō, whose first element, hlóð-, might be related to ModNorw. lo ‘unthreshed grain’, ModSwed. dialects lod ‘hay-‘ or ‘cornstack’. The second element, ‑yn, is derived from vin f. ‘meadow’ (see ÍO: Hlóðyn, Hlǫðyn; cf. also Sigyn in Þul Ásynja 2/4 and Note). According to Finnur Jónsson (LP: Hlǫðyn, Skj B, followed by Skald, as well as by SnE 1998, I, 130 and Dronke 1997, 22, 150), the correct form of this name is Hlǫðyn. That reading is not supported by the mss, however, because all have <o> here. That is also the case in Vsp 56/2 (NK 13), and both in the present þula and in Vsp 56/2 the metre requires a long root vowel. See also VSt Erf 2/4 and Eskál Vell 26/3^I.

References

1. Bibliography
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8. SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
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12. Internal references
13. (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 3 June 2024)
14. Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Ásynja 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. 765.
15. Edith Marold (ed.) 2012, ‘Einarr skálaglamm Helgason, Vellekla 26’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 315.
16. Not published: do not cite ()
17. Edith Marold (ed.) 2017, ‘Vǫlu-Steinn, Ǫgmundardrápa 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. 429.