[2] Viðris ‘Viðrir’s <= Óðinn’s>’: This is a name for Óðinn, which is interpreted as ‘one who rules over the weather (or winds)’. The name is explained in Þáttr Hálfdanar svarta (Flat 1860-8, I, 564): þui er hann kalladr Uidrir at þeir sogdu hann uedrum rada ‘he is called Viðrir because they said that he governs the winds’. See also Falk (1924, 34). Viðrir is frequently used in poetry (see also Lok 26/5, HHund I 13/7, Gylf, SnE 2005, 8), but is mentioned neither in the catalogue of the names of this god in Grí 46-50, 54 nor in Þul Óðins.
References
- Bibliography
- Flat 1860-8 = Gudbrand Vigfusson [Guðbrandur Vigfússon] and C. R. Unger, eds. 1860-8. Flateyjarbók. En samling af norske konge-sagaer med indskudte mindre fortællinger om begivenheder i og udenfor Norge samt annaler. 3 vols. Christiania (Oslo): Malling.
- SnE 2005 = Snorri Sturluson. 2005. Edda: Prologue and Gylfaginning. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2nd edn. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Falk, Hjalmar. 1924. Odensheite. Skrifter utg. av Videnskapsselskapet i Kristiania. II. Hist.-filos. kl. 1924, 10. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Snorri Sturluson, Gylfaginning’ 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=113> (accessed 25 April 2024)
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- Elena Gurevich 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Óðins nǫfn’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 731. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=3228> (accessed 25 April 2024)