Note to Þul Óðins 3III
[7] Geiguðr: This agent noun does not occur elsewhere, except as the second element of Fjallgeiguðr (see st. 2/8 above). See also Geigaðr, the name of one of King Hugleikr’s champions in Yng (ch. 22, ÍF 26, 43) (= Gegathus in Saxo 2005, I, 6, 5, 11-12, pp. 384-7). According to Falk (1924, 12), this name may allude to the myth of Óðinn hanging on the ash Yggdrasill and thus would mean ‘dangling one’; cf. Váfuðr (st. 5/7). Like the latter name, geiguðr is also a heiti for ‘wind’ (see also the variant reading of gneggjuðr ‘neigher’, Þul Veðra 2/5). In LP: Geiguðr, the name is interpreted as ‘wanderer’ (cf. CVC: geiga ‘take a wrong turn, rove at random, stray’); see also Gangleri (l. 4 above).
References
- Bibliography
- 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.
- CVC = Cleasby, Richard, Gudbrand Vigfusson [Guðbrandur Vigfússon] and W. A. Craigie. 1957. An Icelandic-English Dictionary. 2nd edn. Oxford: Clarendon.
- ÍF 26-8 = Heimskringla. Ed. Bjarni Aðalbjarnarson. 1941-51.
- Saxo 2005 = Friis-Jensen, Karsten, ed. 2005. Saxo Grammaticus: Gesta Danorum / Danmarkshistorien. Trans. Peter Zeeberg. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Det danske sprog- og litteraturselskab & Gads forlag.
- Falk, Hjalmar. 1924. Odensheite. Skrifter utg. av Videnskapsselskapet i Kristiania. II. Hist.-filos. kl. 1924, 10. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Heimskringla, Ynglinga saga’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=158> (accessed 20 April 2024)
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Veðra heiti 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. 919.