[4] Mævill: In Hversu Nóregr byggðisk (Flat 1860-8, I, 22), Mævill is a son of the sea-king Meiti, whose name is recorded in st. 2/8 above. The name is also known from Þorsteins saga Víkingssonar, Víga-Glúms saga and Saxo (the latter mentions a fleet under the command of Reuillus and Meuillus, see Saxo 2005, I, 5, 8, 4, pp. 338-9; see also Ræfill, st. 4/3). Mævill may be a diminutive of már m. ‘seagull’ (Finnur Jónsson 1934-5, 291). Cf. also Mævi (l. 6 below) and the dwarf-name Gullmævill (Þul Dverga 4/3). The name Mævill occurs in kennings for ‘ship’ in the rímur (Finnur Jónsson 1926-8: Mævill).
References
- Bibliography
- Finnur Jónsson. 1926-8. Ordbog til de af samfund til udg. af gml. nord. litteratur udgivne Rímur samt til de af Dr. O. Jiriczek udgivne Bósarímur. SUGNL 51. Copenhagen: Jørgensen.
- 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.
- 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.
- Finnur Jónsson. 1934-5. ‘Þulur: Søkonge- og jættenavneremserne’. APS 9, 289-308.
- Internal references
- 2022, ‘ Anonymous, Víga-Glúms saga’ in Margaret Clunies Ross, Kari Ellen Gade and Tarrin Wills (eds), Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 5. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 1374-1398. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=27> (accessed 9 May 2024)
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Dverga 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. 699.
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