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Note to Ásb Ævkv 4VIII (OStór 7)

[2-3] gráðgum blakki Geitis ‘to the greedy horse of Geitir <giant> [WOLF]’: Usually determinants of wolf-kennings of this type are names for giantesses rather than male giants. Geitir is given as the name of one of Ásbjǫrn’s companions in OStór 10/8.  It appears as a giant name in Þul Jotna I 3/3III and as a sea-king name in Þul Sækonunga 1/7III.

References

  1. Internal references
  2. Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Sækonunga heiti 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. 678.
  3. Peter Jorgensen (ed.) 2017, ‘Orms þáttr Stórólfssonar 10 (Ásbjǫrn, Ævikviða 7)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 614.

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