[3] Jafnhár: Lit. ‘equally high one’. As an Óðinn-heiti, the name occurs only in Grí 49/9 and in Gylf (passim), where it belongs to one of Gylfi’s informants. The name is a late formation, denoting the second member of the heathen trinity. See Þriði (st. 5/4), and the Old High German epithet for Christ, ebenhēr, where ‑hēr means ‘delightful, distinguished’ (Falk 1924, 20).
References
- Bibliography
- Falk, Hjalmar. 1924. Odensheite. Skrifter utg. av Videnskapsselskapet i Kristiania. II. Hist.-filos. kl. 1924, 10. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.
- Internal references
- (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 25 April 2024)
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