[4] Ófnir: See Note to Sváfnir (st. 4/3, another mythical serpent; cf. Þul Orma 1/3). If the stem vowel is short (Ofnir), the name is related to ofinn, p. p. of the strong verb vefa ‘weave’, hence ‘weaver’. If the vowel is long, Ófnir may be connected with the adj. œfr ‘vehement, angry, chafing’ (‘one who incites to battle’, ‘instigator’, cf. Hnikuðr, st. 1/8; see Falk 1924, 23).
References
- Bibliography
- Falk, Hjalmar. 1924. Odensheite. Skrifter utg. av Videnskapsselskapet i Kristiania. II. Hist.-filos. kl. 1924, 10. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Orma heiti 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. 928.