[8] Þrasir: Lit. ‘raver, one in rage’ (from the weak verb þrasa ‘rage, rave’; see Gould 1929, 955 and Motz 1973, 115). A dwarf of this name is known only from this þula and Eil Þdr 19/4, but ‑þrasir is the second element in a number of compounds: Dólgþrasir (also a dwarf-name in Vsp 15/2); Lífþrasir (Lífðrasir), the name of one of the two human survivors of Ragnarǫk in Vafþr 45/1 (NK 53); the mythical name Mǫgþrasir in Vafþr 49/3. Other than that, Þrasarr is a name for Óðinn (see Note to Þul Óðins 4/4).
References
- Bibliography
- NK = Neckel, Gustav and Hans Kuhn (1899), eds. 1983. Edda: Die Lieder des Codex Regius nebst verwandten Denkmälern. 2 vols. I: Text. 5th edn. Heidelberg: Winter.
- Gould, Chester N. 1929. ‘Dwarf-names: A Study in Old Icelandic Religion’. PMLA 44, 938-67.
- Motz, Lotte. 1973. ‘New Thoughts on Dwarf-Names in Old Icelandic’. FS 7, 100-17.
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Óðins nǫfn 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. 741.
- Edith Marold (ed.) 2017, ‘Eilífr Goðrúnarson, Þórsdrápa 19’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 117.
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