Note to Þul Óðins 1III
[6] Viðrímnir: An obscure cpd not attested elsewhere. This reading is attested only in ms. A. In B the second part is ‑mímir (see Note to Þul Jǫtna I 1/3) and the first element is now illegible, while 744ˣ has ‘vidrmimir’ (so also the LaufE mss). According to Falk (1924, 33), the correct form of the name is Við(h)rímnir, perhaps a variant of the eagle-heiti andhrímnir ‘counter-screamer’ (Þul Ara l. 2). He interprets both names as ‘counter-screamer’, from and- = við- ‘opposite, against, counter’, and hrímnir m. from the m. noun hreimr ‘scream, cry’ (cf. the myth of the mead of poetry where Óðinn appears in an eagle’s shape, Skm, SnE 1998, I, 4-5). Alternatively, the first element may be connected with viðr m. ‘wood, tree’ (see ÍO: Viðrímnir).
References
- Bibliography
- ÍO = Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon. 1989. Íslensk orðsifjabók. Reykjavík: Orðabók Háskólans.
- SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Falk, Hjalmar. 1924. Odensheite. Skrifter utg. av Videnskapsselskapet i Kristiania. II. Hist.-filos. kl. 1924, 10. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Snorri Sturluson, Skáldskaparmál’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=112> (accessed 7 May 2024)
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Jǫtna heiti I 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 707.
- Elena Gurevich 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Ara heiti’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 949. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=3240> (accessed 7 May 2024)
- (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Laufás Edda’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=10928> (accessed 7 May 2024)