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Note to Þul Ása I 1III

[5] Þórr ok Hildolfr ‘Þórr and Hildólfr’: Kock (NN §2565A; Skald) argues that the correct order of these names must be Hildolfr ok Þórr so as to avoid having a non-alliterating noun in the first lift (he rearranges the names in l. 7 in a similar way and for the same reason). As the name of a son of Óðinn, Hildólfr (lit. ‘battle-wolf’) is not attested elsewhere, but in Hárb 8/1 this is the owner of the boat in which Óðinn, disguised as the ferryman Hárbarðr, refuses to take Þórr across a fjord.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  3. NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  4. Internal references
  5. Not published: do not cite ()

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