[1] Fróði: A common pers. n. derived from the adj. fróðr ‘wise’, with cognates in other Germanic languages (OHG Frodo, Fruoto; OE Froda). Finnur Jónsson (1934-5, 294) identified this sea-king as the legendary Danish king Fróði inn frœkni ‘the Bold’ Friðleifsson (cf. Ættartölur in Flat 1860-8, I, 27 and RvHbreiðm Hl 35 Note to [All]), but there are also other Danish kings and Norwegian chieftains of this name (see Flat 1860-8, I, 25-7, 41-2 and ÍF 35, 14; cf. also Fróði = Frioðigar in SnE 2005, 5 (Prologue); Hyndl 13/5, 19/5, etc.).
References
- Bibliography
- 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.
- ÍF 35 = Danakonunga sǫgur. Ed. Bjarni Guðnason. 1982.
- SnE 2005 = Snorri Sturluson. 2005. Edda: Prologue and Gylfaginning. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2nd edn. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Finnur Jónsson. 1934-5. ‘Þulur: Søkonge- og jættenavneremserne’. APS 9, 289-308.
- Internal references
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- Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Rǫgnvaldr jarl and Hallr Þórarinsson, Háttalykill 35’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1044.
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