[1] Drǫsli ‘Drǫsull’: A variant form of Drasill, and the latter is given as a heiti for ‘horse’ in Þul Hesta 3/4. See AEW: drasill. The word also occurs as the second element in Yggdrasill lit. ‘Yggr’s horse’, the world ash-tree in Old Norse myth (see, among other sources, Vsp 19-20, 47). The U variant hrafni is clearly incorrect, and likely to have been caused by Hrafni in st. 3/1 below.
References
- Bibliography
- AEW = Vries, Jan de. 1962. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2nd rev. edn. Rpt. 1977. Leiden: Brill.
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Hesta 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. 937.
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