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Note to Þul Ásynja 2III

[7] Rán: Wife of the sea-giant Ægir, and also listed in Þul Sjóvar 4/3 (see HHund I 30/5-6, HHj 18/5, Reg prose, Skm, SnE 1998, I, 36, 41, 95, etc.). It is likely that the name of this being is identical with rán f. ‘robbery, plunder’ (if so, ‘plundering one’), although other interpretations have been suggested, e.g. that Rán (< *ráðn-) may be related to the strong verb ráða ‘rule’ or to the adj. rámr ‘hoarse’ (see AEW: rán 2). The name is very seldom used as a base-word in skaldic woman-kennings; more often it occurs as a determinant in kennings for ‘sea’. In the rímur, Rán frequently appears in kennings for ‘woman’ (Finnur Jónsson 1926-8: Rán).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. AEW = Vries, Jan de. 1962. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2nd rev. edn. Rpt. 1977. Leiden: Brill.
  3. Finnur Jónsson. 1926-8. Ordbog til de af samfund til udg. af gml. nord. litteratur udgivne Rímur samt til de af Dr. O. Jiriczek udgivne Bósarímur. SUGNL 51. Copenhagen: Jørgensen.
  4. SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
  5. Internal references
  6. (forthcoming), ‘ Snorri Sturluson, Skáldskaparmál’ 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=112> (accessed 11 May 2024)
  7. Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Sjóvar heiti 4’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 836.
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