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Note to Þul Þorgþ II 1III

[6] Arfuni: Perhaps lit. ‘heir’. As an ox-name the word is also recorded in Þul Øxna 3/4 but not found elsewhere. The pair Arfr ok Arfuni ‘Arfr and Arfuni’ most likely points to a semantic connection between these two heiti: ‘inheritance/cattle’ – ‘heir/bull’ (cf. NN §2158A). Alternatively, de Vries (AEW: arfr 2) suggests that arfuni (or ǫrfuni, so ms. A, Þul Øxna 3/4) might be derived from the root erf- in erfiði n. ‘toil, burden’ with the suffix ‑uni (from the weak verb una ‘be content with, be happy with’). If so, the name would mean ‘content with toil’.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  3. AEW = Vries, Jan de. 1962. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2nd rev. edn. Rpt. 1977. Leiden: Brill.
  4. Internal references
  5. Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Øxna 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. 888.

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