[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
- Bibliography
- Falk, Hjalmar. 1924. Odensheite. Skrifter utg. av Videnskapsselskapet i Kristiania. II. Hist.-filos. kl. 1924, 10. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.
- Internal references
- Not published: do not cite ()
- 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.