[7] Valfǫðr: So A and the LaufE mss; omitted in B. Lit. ‘father of the slain’. The first element of the cpd is derived from valr m. or val n. ‘the slain, fallen warriors’. For the second element ‑fǫðr, see Note to st. 1/4 above. The name is explained as follows in Gylf (SnE 2005, 21): hann heitir ok Valfǫðr, þvíat hans óskasynir eru allir þeir, er í val falla ‘He is also called Valfǫðr, because all those who fall in battle are his foster-sons’. The name is also recorded in Grí 48/3 and Vsp 1/5, 27/7.
References
- Bibliography
- SnE 2005 = Snorri Sturluson. 2005. Edda: Prologue and Gylfaginning. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2nd edn. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Snorri Sturluson, Gylfaginning’ 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=113> (accessed 27 April 2024)
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- (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 27 April 2024)