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Note to Heiðv Lv 4VIII (Hrólf 5)

[2] Hams ok Hrana ‘of Hamr and Hrani’: These names are appropriate for men in disguise. As a common noun hamr means ‘shape’ in a context that often suggests shape-changing (cf. LP: hamr), while Hrani, possibly meaning ‘rough fellow’ (AEW: Hrani), also occurs as the name of one of the sons of Arngrímr in Heiðr 26/2. Possessing fierce eyes is frequently a sign in Old Norse mythological and heroic poetry of divine or heroic power of a kind that cannot be concealed; cf. the collocation ǫtul augu ‘fierce eyes’ in 34/7 and HHund II 4/13.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. AEW = Vries, Jan de. 1962. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2nd rev. edn. Rpt. 1977. Leiden: Brill.
  3. LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
  4. Internal references
  5. Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 73 (Gestumblindi, Heiðreks gátur 26)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 440.
  6. Not published: do not cite ()

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