Note to Þul Ásynja 3III
[6] Mardǫll: The first element in this name is probably marr m. ‘sea’, and the second may be related to the personal names Dalla and Dellingr (see Note to Þul Dverga 3/7); cf. OE deall ‘proud, celebrated’ and MIr. dellrad ‘glitter’ (ÍO: Dalla 3). De Vries (ARG II, 328) believes that the name is connected with Freyja’s precious property, the necklace Brísingamen, and has a parallel in Heimdallr (see Þul Ása I l. 9). However, based on the variant reading ‘Marþavll’ in ms. U(10r) of SnE, Pipping (1925, 6) argues that the second element in this name is identical with þǫll f. ‘fir-tree’; cf. ModIcel. marþöll ‘western hemlock’ (Tsuga heterophylla), a type of fir-tree growing near the sea. Other than in Gylf (SnE 2005, 29), the name occurs only as a determinant in kennings for ‘gold’ of the type tár Mardallar ‘tears of Mardǫll’.
References
- Bibliography
- 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.
- ARG = Vries, Jan de. 1956-7. Altgermanische Religionsgeschichte. 2 vols. 2nd edn. Berlin: de Gruyter.
- Pipping, Hugo. 1925. ‘Eddastudier I’. Studier i nordisk filologi 16. Skrifter utgivna av Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland 182. Helsingfors: Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland.
- Internal references
- Edith Marold 2017, ‘Snorra Edda (Prologue, Gylfaginning, Skáldskaparmál)’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols [check printed volume for citation].
- (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 4 May 2024)
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Dverga heiti 3’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 697.
- 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 4 May 2024)