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Note to Þul Sea-kings 1III

[8] Beimuni: Perhaps identical with Beimi (see Note to l. 4) and/or the daring sea-king Bemonus, a partner of Starkaðr in Gesta Danorum (Saxo 2005, I, 6, 5, 8-10, pp. 382-5). This name also occurs in Saxo Book VIII where Haki and the sons of Bemonus are mentioned among the champions who fought at the battle of Brávellir (Saxo 2005, I, 8, 2, 7, pp. 512-13). The origin of Beimuni is disputed. Nordenstreng (1923, 25-32; see also Björn Sigfússon 1934, 127) connects it with the name of a parish on the southern coast of Finland, Paimio (in the C14th Pemæren, Peymarum), which apparently was a Viking stronghold. According to Nordenstreng, ‑uni could have been a pers. n. (‘Uni from Paimio’), or Beimuni might have been derived from the adj. paimioinen ‘belonging to Paimio’ (for other possible explanations, see ÍO: beimar). The name is also included in Þul Sækonunga 1/4 but does not occur in kennings.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. ÍO = Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon. 1989. Íslensk orðsifjabók. Reykjavík: Orðabók Háskólans.
  3. Saxo 2005 = Friis-Jensen, Karsten, ed. 2005. Saxo Grammaticus: Gesta Danorum / Danmarkshistorien. Trans. Peter Zeeberg. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Det danske sprog- og litteraturselskab & Gads forlag.
  4. Björn Sigfússon. 1934. ‘Names of Sea-Kings (heiti sækonunga)’. MP 32, 125-42.
  5. Nordenstreng, Rolf. 1923. ‘Beimuni och beimana’. NoB 11, 25-32.
  6. Internal references
  7. Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Sækonunga heiti 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 678.
  8. Not published: do not cite ()

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