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Note to Þul Óðins 5III

[4] Hveðrungr: The name of a giant, apparently another name for Loki (see Note to Þul Jǫtna I 1/7). As an Óðinn-heiti the name is attested only in the present þula and in later rímur (Finnur Jónsson 1926-8: Hveðrungr). Falk (1924, 19) suggests that it was assigned to Óðinn owing to a misunderstanding of the kenning mær Hveðrungs ‘Hveðrungr’s girl’ in Þjóð Yt 24/3I, which was interpreted as a kenning for ‘valkyrie’ rather than as a circumlocution for ‘Hel’ (Hveðrungr, i.e. Loki, was the father of Hel). Cf. also the name of Loki’s brother, Helblindi, given as a variant of Herblindi above (l. 1).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. 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.
  3. Falk, Hjalmar. 1924. Odensheite. Skrifter utg. av Videnskapsselskapet i Kristiania. II. Hist.-filos. kl. 1924, 10. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.
  4. Internal references
  5. Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Jǫtna heiti I 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 707.
  6. Edith Marold (ed.) 2012, ‘Þjóðólfr ór Hvini, Ynglingatal 24’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 52.

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