[7] Skáfiðr: Most likely ‘a crooked Saami’ (cf. the adj. skár ‘slanting, crooked’ and fiðr, finnr ‘Saami’; see ÍO: Skáfið(u)r). The name is also recorded in Vsp 15/6 and Gylf (SnE 2005, 16). However, Gould (1929, 953) argues that the second part of this name ought to be interpreted as ‑viðr from viðr m. ‘board, slat, rung, tree’, hence lit. ‘slanting board’. His reason for doing so is evidently that there are other cpd dwarf-names in this þula with a similar second element, cf. Blindviðr, Miðviðr (st. 1/3, 5), Viðr (st. 4/4). The LaufE mss have Skapid(u)r, in which an original <f> must have been misread as <p>.
References
- Bibliography
- ÍO = Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon. 1989. Íslensk orðsifjabók. Reykjavík: Orðabók Háskólans.
- SnE 2005 = Snorri Sturluson. 2005. Edda: Prologue and Gylfaginning. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2nd edn. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Gould, Chester N. 1929. ‘Dwarf-names: A Study in Old Icelandic Religion’. PMLA 44, 938-67.
- 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 24 April 2024)
- Not published: do not cite ()
- (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)