[8] Norðri: Lit. ‘one in the North’ or ‘northerly one’, from norðr ‘north’. Norðri is one of the dwarfs who hold up the sky (see Vsp 11 and Gylf, SnE 2005, 12, 16). The name is repeated in st. 2/6. This is the only dwarf-name listed in this stanza which is attested in skaldic verse (in a sky-kenning in Hfr ErfÓl 26a/3I).
References
- Bibliography
- SnE 2005 = Snorri Sturluson. 2005. Edda: Prologue and Gylfaginning. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2nd edn. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- 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 9 May 2024)
- Not published: do not cite ()
- Kate Heslop (ed.) 2012, ‘Hallfreðr vandræðaskáld Óttarsson, Erfidrápa Óláfs Tryggvasonar 26a’ 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. 437.