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Note to Þul Dverga 2III

[7] Skáværr: Attested only here and in LaufE. Gould (1929, 953) suggests the translation ‘good-natured one’ (from the adjectives skár ‘good’ and værr ‘comfortable’), but he admits that Skáværr may also mean ‘one who is wry, distorted, slanting’ (from skár ‘slanting, crooked’; cf. the next name).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Gould, Chester N. 1929. ‘Dwarf-names: A Study in Old Icelandic Religion’. PMLA 44, 938-67.
  3. Internal references
  4. (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Laufás Edda’ 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=10928> (accessed 24 April 2024)

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