[5] Dóri: So A and the LaufE mss, while B has the variant ‘duri’. This is one of the dwarf-names added to Dvergatal in Gylf (SnE 2005, 16). It is also known from Fj 34/4, but not attested elsewhere. Several explanations for this name have been suggested. Gould (1929, 944) gives the meaning ‘borer, auger’ (cf. ModIcel. dór ‘auger’, New Norw. dor ‘iron bolt, axle, axle-tap, punch’, dore ‘to enlarge a hole by punching’), while Sijmons and Gering (S-G I, 18) connect it with OE derian ‘hurt, harm, damage’.
References
- Bibliography
- SnE 2005 = Snorri Sturluson. 2005. Edda: Prologue and Gylfaginning. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2nd edn. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- S-G = Gering, Hugo. 1927-31. Kommentar zu den Liedern der Edda. Nach dem Tode des Verfassers herausgegeben von B. Sijmons. I: Götterlieder. II: Heldenlieder. Halle: Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses.
- 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 19 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- Not published: do not cite ()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 19 April 2024)