Cookies on our website

We use cookies on this website, mainly to provide a secure browsing experience but also to collect statistics on how the website is used. You can find out more about the cookies we set, the information we store and how we use it on the cookies page.

Continue

skaldic

Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

Menu Search

Note to Þul Óðins 2III

[6] Fornǫlvir: A hap. leg. The B variant ‑olfr appears to be a lectio facilior (LP: Fornǫlvir); the LaufE mss have ‘fornolfner’. The first element of the name, the adj. forn, means ‘old, ancient’ (cf. the Óðinn-name Forni mentioned in Note to st. 1/5 Kjalarr) and the second part, Ǫlvir, may be derived from Ǫlvér (= OHG, OS Alawīh ‘very holy’; cf. , the name of Óðinn’s brother). For other possible explanations, see AEW: Ǫlvér. Along with Óðinn, the name Ǫlvér occurs in an Icelandic magic formula invoking heathen gods (Ølver, Óðenn, Ille; see N. Lindqvist 1921, 64).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. AEW = Vries, Jan de. 1962. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2nd rev. edn. Rpt. 1977. Leiden: Brill.
  3. LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
  4. Lindqvist, Sune. 1921. ‘Ynglingaättens gravskick’. Fv 16, 83-194.
  5. Internal references
  6. (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)

Close

Log in

This service is only available to members of the relevant projects, and to purchasers of the skaldic volumes published by Brepols.
This service uses cookies. By logging in you agree to the use of cookies on your browser.

Close