[6] Arfr: Several explanations for this heiti have been suggested (see AEW: arfr 2). Most likely it is the same word as arfr m. ‘inheritance’, which is supported by ModSwed. dialects arv, orv ‘ox-yoke’ and OE orf ‘cattle’ (see NN §2158A; for the semantic development cf. fé ‘cattle’ > ‘property, money’). The name is also given in Þul Øxna 2/7 (cf. the next Note), but it is not otherwise attested in poetry as an ox-heiti.
References
- Bibliography
- 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, Øxna 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. 887.