[4] Fulla: According to Gylf (SnE 2005, 29), this Ásynja is a virgin, and she is Frigg’s handmaid and confidante (see also Grí prose, NK 56-7)). In one of the continental sources, the Second Merseburg Charm (C9th or C10th), where her name appears as OHG Volla, this goddess is said to be a sister of Frija, i.e. Frigg (Turville-Petre 1964, 122, 188). The name is related to the adj. fullr ‘full’ (ÍO: fullur, Fulla).
References
- Bibliography
- Turville-Petre, Gabriel. 1964. Myth and Religion of the North. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
- NK = Neckel, Gustav and Hans Kuhn (1899), eds. 1983. Edda: Die Lieder des Codex Regius nebst verwandten Denkmälern. 2 vols. I: Text. 5th edn. Heidelberg: Winter.
- ÍO = Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon. 1989. Íslensk orðsifjabók. Reykjavík: Orðabók Háskólans.
- SnE 2005 = Snorri Sturluson. 2005. Edda: Prologue and Gylfaginning. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2nd edn. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- 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 26 April 2024)
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