Note to Þul Þorgþ I 2III
[1] Vigg: Vigg is not attested as a proper name elsewhere, but it is frequently used in poetry as a common noun (‘horse, steed’; cf. OE wicg, OS wigg ‘horse’). In Skj B the name is given as Viggr (m.), which probably is a later form (see AEW: vigg). See also Þul Hesta, where this heiti appears twice, as vigg (st. 2/7) and as viggr (st. 4/7). The latter is an emended form and the ms. readings can be normalised as vigr/vígr (see Note to Þul Hesta 4/7). Because the form Vigg n. is not really an appropriate name for a horse, Kock (NN §2157B) suggests the reading Vígr m. ‘warlike one’ or ‘swift one’ (from the adj. vígr ‘warlike, able to fight’), but this has no support in the mss (the variant reading vingr, which is found only in U, is likely to be a scribal error). ‘Vig’ in the LaufE mss (<i> and not <í>) cannot be construed as an Old Norse word and is of no help here.
References
- Bibliography
- Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
- NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- 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 4’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 939.
- Elena Gurevich 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Hesta heiti’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 935. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=3236> (accessed 19 April 2024)
- (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Laufás Edda’ 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=10928> (accessed 19 April 2024)