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Note to Þul Dverga 5III

[1] Fár*: The mss have ‘fáʀr’ (A) and ‘farr’ (B; 744ˣ has ‘fare’, which shows that Jón Ólafsson was uncertain about the transcription of the last letter), but the correct reading is most likely Fár ‘shining, coloured’ (so Skj B; Skald; Gould 1929, 946). Cf. Fáinn (ÍO: fár 3) above, as well as the semantically similar names Mjǫklituðr (st. 1/2 above) and Litr (st. 6/2 below). This heiti does not occur elsewhere.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
  3. Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  4. ÍO = Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon. 1989. Íslensk orðsifjabók. Reykjavík: Orðabók Háskólans.
  5. Gould, Chester N. 1929. ‘Dwarf-names: A Study in Old Icelandic Religion’. PMLA 44, 938-67.

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