[8] Ítreksjóð ‘Ítrekr’s offspring’: From Ítrekr (< *ítr-rekr ‘glorious king’ (AEW: ítr); cf. the adj. ítr ‘glorious, excellent’) and jóð n. ‘offspring, newborn child’. Ítrekr is probably one of Óðinn’s names (Falk 1924, 20), although that name is recorded neither in Þul Óðins nor in the list of Óðinn-heiti in Grí 46-54. The name is given in a response to a query posed in Gestumbl Heiðr 32VIII (Heiðr 79) in Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks (Heiðr, FSN I, 473), and here Ítrekr is one of the kings participating in a board game (hnefatafl; see Beck 1978a, 454-5).
References
- Bibliography
- FSN = Rafn, Carl Christian, ed. 1829-30. Fornaldar sögur nordrlanda. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Popp.
- AEW = Vries, Jan de. 1962. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2nd rev. edn. Rpt. 1977. Leiden: Brill.
- Falk, Hjalmar. 1924. Odensheite. Skrifter utg. av Videnskapsselskapet i Kristiania. II. Hist.-filos. kl. 1924, 10. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.
- Beck, Heinrich. 1978a. ‘Brettspiel I. Literarisches’. In RGA, 3, 450-6.
- Internal references
- 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 367. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=23> (accessed 26 April 2024)
- Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 79 (Gestumblindi, Heiðreks gátur 32)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 446.
- Not published: do not cite ()
- 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 26 April 2024)