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Note to Þul Trollkvenna 1III

[7] Guma: This troll-woman is not mentioned elsewhere, and the meaning of the heiti is obscure. Guma could be a weak f. form of gumi ‘man’ (so Motz 1981, 505); cf. ModSwed. gumma ‘old woman’ (see Hellquist 1970, I, 312). Finnur Jónsson (1934-5, 306) connects it with the weak verb guma ‘make a great fuss about sth., exaggerate’ (cf. ModIcel. gum n. ‘bragging’; ÍO: Guma). According to that interpretation, Guma would mean ‘braggart’, but a connection with the giant-name Gymir (see Note to Þul Jǫtna I 1/8) cannot be excluded. The variant Ginna is most likely related to the weak verb ginna ‘dupe, fool sby’, ‘intoxicate’.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. ÍO = Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon. 1989. Íslensk orðsifjabók. Reykjavík: Orðabók Háskólans.
  3. Hellquist, Elof. 1970. Svensk etymologisk ordbok. 3rd edn. Lund: Gleerup.
  4. Finnur Jónsson. 1934-5. ‘Þulur: Søkonge- og jættenavneremserne’. APS 9, 289-308.
  5. Motz, Lotte. 1981. ‘Giantesses and Their Names’. FS 15, 495-511.
  6. Internal references
  7. Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Jǫtna heiti I 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 707.

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