[3] Næfill: One of the sons of Hálfdan gamli ‘the Old’ (Flat 1860-8, I, 25-6). The name means ‘clever, skilled one’ from the adj. næfr ‘skilled’ (cf. Eynæfir, st. 2/1) with the suffix ‑ill, which is frequently found in this group of names. The name is never attested in kennings. See also the dwarf-names Næfr and Næfi (Þul Dverga 2/3).
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.
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Dverga 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. 695.