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Note to Þul Óðins 7III

[1] Eylúðr: The name may mean ‘ever-trumpeting’, from the adv. ey ‘ever’ and lúðr m. ‘trumpet’ (AEW: Eylúðr). Lúðr can also mean ‘cradle, box, coffin’, however (AEW: lúðr), so the exact meaning of the cpd cannot be determined with certainty. As an Óðinn-name, Eylúðr is not attested elsewhere, but the cpd occurs in Snæbj Lv 1/4. According to Falk (1924, 7), this is one of the names that may suggest a close connection between Óðinn and the sea (cf. Hléfǫðr, Hléfreyr and Ólgr, sts 4/1, 5/3, 6/7).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. AEW = Vries, Jan de. 1962. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2nd rev. edn. Rpt. 1977. Leiden: Brill.
  3. Falk, Hjalmar. 1924. Odensheite. Skrifter utg. av Videnskapsselskapet i Kristiania. II. Hist.-filos. kl. 1924, 10. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.
  4. Internal references
  5. Edith Marold (ed.) 2017, ‘Snæbjǫrn, Lausavísur 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. 377.

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