[2] Reimnir: Undoubtedly identical with Reifnir (LP: Reimnir; for ‑fn > ‑mn, see ANG §237.2). In the latter form the name is mentioned in Þul Sækonunga 4/2 and in Hyndl 23/2, where it is the name of one of Arngrímr’s sons. It is used in skaldic kennings. Most likely its meaning is ‘one who cheers others with presents’, ‘liberal’ (cf. the weak verb reifa ‘enrich, give, gladden’ and the adj. reifr ‘cheerful’; Björn Sigfússon 1934, 136; Finnur Jónsson 1934-5, 293).
References
- Bibliography
- LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
- ANG = Noreen, Adolf. 1923. Altnordische Grammatik I: Altisländische und altnorwegische Grammatik (Laut- und Flexionslehre) unter Berücksichtigung des Urnordischen. 4th edn. Halle: Niemeyer. 1st edn. 1884. 5th unrev. edn. 1970. Tübingen: Niemeyer.
- Björn Sigfússon. 1934. ‘Names of Sea-Kings (heiti sækonunga)’. MP 32, 125-42.
- Finnur Jónsson. 1934-5. ‘Þulur: Søkonge- og jættenavneremserne’. APS 9, 289-308.
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Sækonunga 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. 683.
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