[1] Bǫlverkr: Lit. ‘evil-doer’ (from bǫl f. ‘misfortune, evil, harm’ and the agent noun verkr ‘doer’), a name that Óðinn assumed when he was working for Baugi, brother of the giant Suttungr (Hávm 109/5-7; SnE 1998, I, 4). This name conveys the opposite meaning of Hagvirkr (st. 4/2 above). Bǫlverkr is recorded in the list of Óðinn-names in Grí 47/5, Gylf (SnE 2005, 22) and in C14th skaldic poetry (EGils Selv 3/3IV). It is also the name of vikings in Hálf and Sǫrla saga sterka (FSN II, 36, 54, III, 426, 428, 430).
References
- Bibliography
- FSN = Rafn, Carl Christian, ed. 1829-30. Fornaldar sögur nordrlanda. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Popp.
- SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- SnE 2005 = Snorri Sturluson. 2005. Edda: Prologue and Gylfaginning. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2nd edn. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Internal references
- 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 303. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=75> (accessed 26 April 2024)
- (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 26 April 2024)
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