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Note to Þul Óðins 6III

[6] Njótr: The heiti means ‘enjoyer, user’ (an agent noun derived from the strong verb njóta ‘enjoy, benefit from’). According to Falk (1924, 23), however, this Óðinn-name is of foreign origin and most likely borrowed from OS Sahsnōt, the name of a Saxon deity and the eponymous father of various peoples (see Turville-Petre 1964, 63). The Old English equivalent of that name is Seaxnēat, a son of Óðinn and the divine ancestor of the kings of Essex. See also the statement in Flat 1860-8, III, 246 to the effect that Óðinn was Saxa god ‘the god of the Saxons’. Njótr is not mentioned in the list in Grí, but the name is used in skaldic kennings (see LP: njótr).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. 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.
  3. Turville-Petre, Gabriel. 1964. Myth and Religion of the North. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
  4. Flat 1860-8 = Gudbrand Vigfusson [Guðbrandur Vigfússon] and C. R. Unger, eds. 1860-8. Flateyjarbók. En samling af norske konge-sagaer med indskudte mindre fortællinger om begivenheder i og udenfor Norge samt annaler. 3 vols. Christiania (Oslo): Malling.
  5. Falk, Hjalmar. 1924. Odensheite. Skrifter utg. av Videnskapsselskapet i Kristiania. II. Hist.-filos. kl. 1924, 10. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.
  6. Internal references
  7. Not published: do not cite ()

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