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Note to Þul Sea-kings 1III

[3] Heiti: The name occurs in many kennings and is also mentioned in Þul Sækonunga 3/4. Its meaning is not certain, perhaps either ‘promiser’ or ‘threatener’ (cf. the strong verb heita ‘promise, threaten, name’, heit n. ‘a solemn promise, vow’, heit (pl.) ‘threatening words’; see Björn Sigfússon 1934, 132). In Hversu Nóregr byggðisk (Flat 1860-8, I, 22), Heiti is said to be the son of king Górr and the brother of Beiti(r), Meitir (see Meiti below) and Geitir.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Flat 1860-8 = Gudbrand Vigfusson [Guðbrandur Vigfússon] and C. R. Unger, eds. 1860-8. Flateyjarbók. En samling af norske konge-sagaer med indskudte mindre fortællinger om begivenheder i og udenfor Norge samt annaler. 3 vols. Christiania (Oslo): Malling.
  3. Björn Sigfússon. 1934. ‘Names of Sea-Kings (heiti sækonunga)’. MP 32, 125-42.
  4. Internal references
  5. Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Sækonunga 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. 681.

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