Note to Þul Óðins 2^III

[7] Hroptr: See also Hroptatýr (st. 3/6). This name, whose origin is uncertain, is attested both in eddic poems (e.g. Vsp 62/6) and in skaldic verse, but it is not recorded in the list in Grí. If the root vowel of the first element is long, Hróptr may be connected with the weak verb hrópa ‘cry’, hence perhaps ‘invoking one’ (Vogt 1925; cf. also OHG hruoft ‘heartrending cry’). Falk (1924, 19) suggests that Hróptr is a contraction of an unattested cpd *hróðhǫpt ‘glorious gods’ (hróðr ‘praise, fame’ and hǫpt n. pl. ‘gods’ with a m. ending -r). If the root vowel is short, which seems more plausible (cf. the internal rhyme Hropts : toptir in ÞKolb Eirdr 8/2^I; see also Kauffmann 1894, 140, n. 3), the name may be related to Gk κρυπτός ‘hidden’ (perhaps the name of a death-god).

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