[8] Njǫrun: This name is probably related to Njǫrðr (cf. AEW: Njǫrun), but there is no information about this deity in any Old Norse source. Other than in the present þula and in skaldic kennings, the name is mentioned only in Alv 30/6 (NK 128), as a part of a term for ‘night’ in the language of the dwarfs, draumniǫrun ‘dream-Njǫrun’ (see Þul Dœgra l. 4 and Kommentar III, 365).
References
- Bibliography
- AEW = Vries, Jan de. 1962. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2nd rev. edn. Rpt. 1977. Leiden: Brill.
- 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.
- Kommentar = See, Klaus von et al. 1997-2012. Kommentar zu den Liedern der Edda. 7 vols. Heidelberg: Winter.
- Internal references
- Not published: do not cite ()
- Elena Gurevich 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Dœgra heiti’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 914. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=3231> (accessed 28 March 2024)