[1] Austri: The name means ‘one in the East’ or ‘easterly one’, from austr ‘east’. This is one of the four dwarfs who hold up the corners of the sky (see Gylf, SnE 2005, 12, 16 and Vsp 11/3). The others are Norðri in sts 1/8, 2/6 and Suðri in st. 2/6; the name of the fourth dwarf, Vestri ‘one in the West’, is not included in this þula. The name Austri occurs in kennings (LP: Austri).
References
- Bibliography
- LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
- 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 26 April 2024)
- Not published: do not cite ()