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Note to Þul Eyja 7III

[6] Vingi: This island has not been identified. According to Munch (1846, 92), perhaps Vinga, one of small islands in the archipelago known as ON Elfarsker in the estuary of the Götaälv near Göteborg, present-day western Sweden. The latter is mentioned in a number of Old Norse sources, e.g. ǪrvOdd Lv 16/2VIII (Ǫrv 49), ǪrvOdd Ævdr 25/7VIII (Ǫrv 96); cf. also ÞorstVík (ch. 20, FSN II, 44). If Vingi is Vinga, the island mentioned in this line is located not far from Læsø in the Kattegat, the next p. n. listed here (see st. 1 above, Note to [All]). However, ModSwed. Vinga < Middle Swed. Hwynggæ (Hellquist 1970: Vinga), hence the expected Old Norse form of the name would be *Hvingi (and not Vingi).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. FSN = Rafn, Carl Christian, ed. 1829-30. Fornaldar sögur nordrlanda. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Popp.
  3. Hellquist, Elof. 1970. Svensk etymologisk ordbok. 3rd edn. Lund: Gleerup.
  4. Munch, P. A. 1846. ‘Geographiske bemærkninger, knyttede til et hidtil uudgivet stykke af den yngre Edda’. ÅNOH, 81-96; 365-7.
  5. Internal references
  6. Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 49 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Lausavísur 16)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 862.
  7. Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 95 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Ævidrápa 25)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 907.
  8. Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 96 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Ævidrápa 26)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 908.

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