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Note to Þul Sækonunga 2III

[1] Gœir: A hap. leg. and spelled in several different ways in the mss (see Readings above). According to Finnur Jónsson (1934-5, 290), the correct form of the name may be Gæir or Gœir (from the roots gá- or gó-). The meaning of the name is uncertain. Björn Sigfússon (1934, 131) suggests ‘brother of Gói(?)’; cf. gói f., a month from the middle of February to the middle of March, meaning the month of snow, and f. ‘winter-weather’, a weather-heiti (Þul Veðra 2/6) derived from gói. Otherwise perhaps the same as Górr (see l. 6 below).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Björn Sigfússon. 1934. ‘Names of Sea-Kings (heiti sækonunga)’. MP 32, 125-42.
  3. Finnur Jónsson. 1934-5. ‘Þulur: Søkonge- og jættenavneremserne’. APS 9, 289-308.
  4. Internal references
  5. Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Veðra heiti 2’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 919.

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