[3] skilfingr (m.) ‘descendant of Skelfir’: A poetic word for ‘ruler’ from the name of a royal dynasty, the Skilfingar ‘descendants of Skelfir’ (SnE 1998, I, 103). Cf. the OE Scylfingas/Scilfingas, members of a Swedish dynasty and denoting the Swedes in Beowulf (see Beowulf 2008, 471-2). Skilfingr is also a name for Óðinn (Þul Óðins 8/5) and a sword-heiti (Þul Sverða 7/3).
References
- Bibliography
- Beowulf 2008 = Fulk, Robert D., Robert E. Bjork and John D. Niles, eds. 2008. Klaeber’s Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburg. 4th rev. edn of Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburg, ed. Fr. Klaeber. Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press.
- SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Óðins nǫfn 8’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 751.
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Sverða heiti 7’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 802.
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