[4] Draupnir: Other than in the þulur, the name is mentioned in Vsp 15/1 and in Gylf (SnE 2005, 16). In Gylf Draupnir is one of the dwarfs who live in rocks. In Old Norse myth, Draupnir is, however, best known as the magic ring from which eight gold rings of the same weight dripped every ninth night (Gylf, SnE 2005, 47; Note to Anon Bjark 4/7). Hence, Gould (1929, 944) interprets the dwarf-name as ‘goldsmith’, ‘dripper (of rings)’, from the strong verb drjúpa ‘drip’.
References
- Bibliography
- 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
- Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Poems, Bjarkamál in fornu 4’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 500.
- (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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