[6] Harðgreip: Lit. ‘hard-grip’ (from the adj. harðr and greip f. ‘grip, the space between the thumb and the other fingers’). In Saxo (Saxo 2005, I, 1, 6, 2-6, pp. 104-11), Harthgrepa is a daughter of the giant Vagnhǫfði and the foster-mother of Haddingr, who later became her lover (see also Harðgreipr, Þul Jǫtna II 1/9 and Note there). The name is not attested in other poetic sources.
References
- Bibliography
- Saxo 2005 = Friis-Jensen, Karsten, ed. 2005. Saxo Grammaticus: Gesta Danorum / Danmarkshistorien. Trans. Peter Zeeberg. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Det danske sprog- og litteraturselskab & Gads forlag.
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Jǫtna heiti II 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. 719.