[7] Grímnir: This heiti means ‘masked one’ (from gríma f. ‘mask’). This is also Óðinn’s name in Grí 47/6, 49/1 (see also the prose introduction, NK 57). The name hints at the god’s many travels in disguise and it is found in other poetic sources as well. Grímnir is also the name of a giant (Þul Jǫtna I 1/6) and a heiti for ‘goat’ (Þul Hafrs 1/1). Cf. the Óðinn-name Grímr (st. 3/1).
References
- Bibliography
- NK = Neckel, Gustav and Hans Kuhn (1899), eds. 1983. Edda: Die Lieder des Codex Regius nebst verwandten Denkmälern. 2 vols. I: Text. 5th edn. Heidelberg: Winter.
- Internal references
- 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 (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Hafrs heiti 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. 893.
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