[8] Ginnarr: Lit. ‘deceiver, impostor’ (related to the weak verb ginna ‘deceive, fool, entice’. This name probably refers to Óðinn as the great seiðmaðr ‘sorcerer, performer of spells’ (Falk 1924, 13). Ginnarr is also recorded as the name of a dwarf (Þul Dverga 4/5) and as a heiti for ‘hawk’ (Þul Hauks 1/5), but as a god’s heiti it occurs only in ms. A of the present þula (the LaufE mss have Ginar). The name Ginnungr (either a name for Óðinn or a giant) is recorded in the rímur (Finnur Jónsson 1926-8: Ginnungr), and that name may well be a variant of Ginnarr. The B variant Gunnar (the pers. n. Gunnarr or gen. sg. of gunnr f. ‘battle’ or Gunnr, a valkyrie) appears to be a lectio facilior.
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.
- Falk, Hjalmar. 1924. Odensheite. Skrifter utg. av Videnskapsselskapet i Kristiania. II. Hist.-filos. kl. 1924, 10. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.
- Internal references
- 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.
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Hauks 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. 941.
- (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 25 April 2024)