[3] Varr: Lit. ‘careful one’, ‘warner’ (cf. the adj. varr ‘cautious, wary’). The name is also known from Fj 34/3 and Hrólfs saga kraka (Hrólf chs 4-5, FSN I, 14-15). In the latter source there are two smiths of this name (Var), but there is no indication that they are dwarfs.
References
- Bibliography
- FSN = Rafn, Carl Christian, ed. 1829-30. Fornaldar sögur nordrlanda. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Popp.
- Internal references
- 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Hrólfs saga kraka’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 539. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=73> (accessed 25 April 2024)
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