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Note to Þul Dverga 6III

[7] Jaki: As a dwarf-name, Jaki is attested only in this þula. Gould (1929, 950) interprets the name as ‘ice-floe’ or ‘ice-berg’ (cf. jaki m. ‘piece of ice’; CVC: jaki). The A variant Jaki could be a scribal error, since ms. B has ‘toki’. However, although Tóki is the name of several legendary persons, it never occurs as a dwarf-name in other sources, and, furthermore, the A variant is supported by the LaufE mss which also have Jaki. Finnur Jónsson (LP: Jaki) suggests that the correct reading may be Jari ‘warrior’ (from jara f. ‘battle’), but he retains Jaki in Skj B. The name Jari is attested in the dwarf-stanzas in the Hb version of Vsp (Iari, Eikin skialldi, Hb 1892-6, 189; cf. the second name in l. 8 below). The Hb reading may be supported by the evidence from later poetry: ÍO gives the forms jári and jár m. as heiti for ‘dwarf’ and as a name for Óðinn which occurs in rímur.

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. LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
  4. CVC = Cleasby, Richard, Gudbrand Vigfusson [Guðbrandur Vigfússon] and W. A. Craigie. 1957. An Icelandic-English Dictionary. 2nd edn. Oxford: Clarendon.
  5. ÍO = Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon. 1989. Íslensk orðsifjabók. Reykjavík: Orðabók Háskólans.
  6. Hb 1892-6 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1892-6. Hauksbók udgiven efter de Arnamagnæanske håndskrifter no. 371, 544 og 675, 4° samt forskellige papirshåndskrifter. Copenhagen: Det kongelige nordiske oldskrift-selskab.
  7. Gould, Chester N. 1929. ‘Dwarf-names: A Study in Old Icelandic Religion’. PMLA 44, 938-67.
  8. Internal references
  9. Not published: do not cite ()
  10. (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 18 April 2024)

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