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Note to Þul Óðins 3III

[3] Gǫndlir: So Grí 49/10 and Skj B, possibly also ms. B of the present stanza where the name is partially illegible (‘go᷎n[…]er’), although the 744ˣ variant ‘ge᷎ngler’ suggests an original B reading closer to that of A. The LaufE mss have ‘Gondler’, which can be normalised as either Gǫndlir or Gondlir. The Óðinn-name Gǫnlir is attested in the rímur (Finnur Jónsson 1926-8: gǫnlir). Gangler (so A) is evidently caused by a confusion with the next name, Gangleri. Gǫndlir is either derived from Gǫndul, the name of a valkyrie (Þul Valkyrja 2/1; see also Svipall in l. 2 above) or from gǫndull = gandr m. ‘rod (or staff) used by sorcerers’ (i.e. seiðstafr) or ‘magic object on which valkyries rode in the air’ (Falk 1924, 14). Perhaps the name originally meant ‘magician’.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
  3. 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.
  4. Falk, Hjalmar. 1924. Odensheite. Skrifter utg. av Videnskapsselskapet i Kristiania. II. Hist.-filos. kl. 1924, 10. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.
  5. Internal references
  6. Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Heiti valkyrja 2’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 970.
  7. Not published: do not cite ()
  8. (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 16 April 2024)

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