Note to Hfr Hákdr 7III
[4] Ónars ‘of Ónarr <giant>’: The name Ónarr (or Ánarr, Annarr, cf. ms readings; see Note to Þul Dverga 3/6, AEW: Ónarr and SnE 2005, 163 for word forms and etymology) appears in several earth-kennings. He is said in Gylf (SnE 2005, 13) to be the second husband of Nótt, perhaps owing to association of his name with the ordinal annarr ‘second’, and father of Jǫrð; a figure of the same name appears in lists of dwarfs (Vsp 11; Þul Dverga 3/6). Frank (2007, 180 n. 23) suggests that Ónarr is an Óðinn-name (although this is not stated in SnE as she implies), as Jǫrð is described in kennings both as Ónarr’s daughter and as his wife, and Gylf (SnE 2005, 13) says of Óðinn, Jǫrðin var dóttir hans ok kona hans ‘The earth was his [Óðinn’s] daughter and his wife’; see the Note to Gsind Hákdr 5/1, 2-3I for an alternative explanation.
References
- Bibliography
- AEW = Vries, Jan de. 1962. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2nd rev. edn. Rpt. 1977. Leiden: Brill.
- SnE 2005 = Snorri Sturluson. 2005. Edda: Prologue and Gylfaginning. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2nd edn. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Frank, Roberta. 2007. ‘The Lay of the Land in Skaldic Praise Poetry’. In Glosecki 2007, 175-96.
- Internal references
- Edith Marold 2017, ‘Snorra Edda (Prologue, Gylfaginning, Skáldskaparmál)’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols [check printed volume for citation].
- (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 27 April 2025)
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Dverga heiti 3’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 697.
- Russell Poole (ed.) 2012, ‘Guthormr sindri, Hákonardrápa 5’ 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. 163.
- Not published: do not cite ()