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Note to Þul Sea-kings 1III

[5] Róði: The name is attested in many kennings and is also included in Þul Sækonunga 3/7. Perhaps a nickname, either related to the weak verb rœða ‘speak’ (so Finnur Jónsson 1934-5, 295) or derived from róða f. ‘rood, crucifix’ (< OE rōð), hence ‘one with a rood’. Björn Sigfússon (1934, 136-7) explains the name as follows: ‘We can fancy that some pagan Viking adopted the Christian symbol, the powerful crucifix, as a war-token on his raids, which would very likely give him the surname Róði’. For other possible interpretations, see ÍO: róði.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. ÍO = Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon. 1989. Íslensk orðsifjabók. Reykjavík: Orðabók Háskólans.
  3. Björn Sigfússon. 1934. ‘Names of Sea-Kings (heiti sækonunga)’. MP 32, 125-42.
  4. Finnur Jónsson. 1934-5. ‘Þulur: Søkonge- og jættenavneremserne’. APS 9, 289-308.
  5. Internal references
  6. 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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