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Note to Þul Óðins 3III

[5] Herteitr: Lit. ‘war-glad one’ from her- ‘war’ or herr m. ‘army, troop’ (cf. also the Óðinn-names Herfǫðr, Hertýr) and the adj. teitr ‘glad, cheerful’. Cf. also herteitir himna ‘gladdener of the host of the heavens’, a kenning for ‘Christ’ in Kolb Jónv 5/1, 2VII (Falk 1924, 17). Otherwise the name is attested only in Grí 47/3.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Falk, Hjalmar. 1924. Odensheite. Skrifter utg. av Videnskapsselskapet i Kristiania. II. Hist.-filos. kl. 1924, 10. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.
  3. Internal references
  4. Not published: do not cite ()
  5. Beatrice La Farge (ed.) 2007, ‘Kolbeinn Tumason, Jónsvísur 5’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 226-7.

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