[1] Atli: This is the substantivised weak m. form of the adj. atall ‘fierce, savage’, hence the meaning is ‘fierce one’ or ‘terrible one’. Atli is also a sea-king (see Notes to Þul Sækonunga 1/1 and 1/6 for a discussion of the name). As a name for Þórr, Atli occurs in poetry only in Eil Þdr 11/5. The variant reading Ali (B) may perhaps be explained as a confusion with Áli, given as the name of another of Óðinn’s sons (see Note to Þul Ása I l. 4).
References
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- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Sækonunga heiti 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 678.
- Edith Marold (ed.) 2017, ‘Eilífr Goðrúnarson, Þórsdrápa 11’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 99.
- Elena Gurevich 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Ása heiti I’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 754. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=3187> (accessed 27 April 2024)