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Note to Þul Sækonunga 1III

[7] Geitir: A sea-king, son of Górr and father of Glammi (Flat 1860-8, I, 22; see Note to l. 3 above). According to Björn Sigfússon (1934, 130), the name may be explained as ‘one clothed in goatskin or looking like a goat (geit) as to colour, hair, and beard’. The name is also listed among the heiti for ‘giant’ (Þul Jǫtna I 3/3). For other parallels with Þul Jǫtna, see Hrauðnir (st. 2/8), Hrauðungr (st. 3/1) and Leifi (st. 3/8).

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, Jǫtna heiti I 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. 710.

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