Note to Þul Óðins 7III
[6] Langbarðr: Lit. ‘long-bearded one’. Cf. Síðskeggr (st. 6/6 above), which is most likely modelled on Langbarðr (so Falk 1924, 22). However, it is possible that this Óðinn-name was influenced by the ethnic name of the Lombards, who received it from Godan (= Wotan, Óðinn): Paulus Diaconus relates the tale of the origin of this name in his Historia Langobardorum (Book I, chs 7-8, Bethmann and Waitz 1878, 52; see also Turville-Petre 1964, 72). As an Óðinn-heiti, Langbarðr is not otherwise attested in poetry, but it is also a heiti for ‘serpent’ and ‘sword’ (Þul Orma 3/3, Þul Sverða 2/3; see also Note to Eyv Hák 7/3I).
References
- Bibliography
- Turville-Petre, Gabriel. 1964. Myth and Religion of the North. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
- 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, Sverða heiti 2’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 791.
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Orma heiti 3’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 931.
- R. D. Fulk (ed.) 2012, ‘Eyvindr skáldaspillir Finnsson, Hákonarmál 7’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 182.