[2] Bíarr: The spelling of this name is uncertain (‘Bíarr’, ‘Bjárr’ or ‘Bjarr’). The Prologue to Gylf mentions a son of Skjǫldr called Biaf, er vér kǫllum Bjár ‘Biaf, whom we call Bjárr’ (SnE 2005, 5; so also Flat 1860-8, I, 27), where Biaf is the Old Norse version of OE Beaw, Beowa (see AEW: Bjár) taken from an Anglo-Saxon regnal list (see Faulkes 1977b).
References
- Bibliography
- AEW = Vries, Jan de. 1962. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2nd rev. edn. Rpt. 1977. Leiden: Brill.
- Flat 1860-8 = Gudbrand Vigfusson [Guðbrandur Vigfússon] and C. R. Unger, eds. 1860-8. Flateyjarbók. En samling af norske konge-sagaer med indskudte mindre fortællinger om begivenheder i og udenfor Norge samt annaler. 3 vols. Christiania (Oslo): Malling.
- SnE 2005 = Snorri Sturluson. 2005. Edda: Prologue and Gylfaginning. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2nd edn. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Faulkes, Anthony. 1977b. ‘The Genealogies and Regnal Lists in a Manuscript in Resen’s Library’. In Einar Gunnar Pétursson et al. 1977, I, 177-90.
- Internal references
- (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 26 April 2024)