[3] Hvítingr: Perhaps a nickname (‘white-haired one’ from the adj. hvítr ‘white’), and also a heiti for ‘sea’ (see Þul Sjóvar 4/2), a sword-name (see Þul Sverða 7/5) and the name of a pair of drinking horns, Hvítingar (see LP: Hvítingr 2). As a pers. n., Hvítingr appears neither in the sagas nor in skaldic kennings.
References
- Bibliography
- LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Sverða heiti 7’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 802.
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Sjóvar heiti 4’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 836.