[3] Valr: Lit. ‘falcon’ (m.). According to Anon Kálfv 2/1, this horse belonged to a legendary person named Vésteinn (see also Þul Hesta 2/2). Like Hrafn (l. 1 above), this horse-heiti frequently occurs as a base-word in kennings for ‘ship’.
References
- Internal references
- Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Kálfsvísa 2’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 666.
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Hesta heiti 2’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 936.