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Note to Þul Trollkvenna 4III

[1] Ǫflugbarða: According to Motz (1981, 500), this name means ‘strong-axe’ (from the adj. ǫflugr ‘strong, powerful’ and barða f. ‘axe’). Alternatively, it can be interpreted as ‘mightily bearded one’, if ‑barð- is taken in the sense barð n. ‘beard’. As the name of a troll-woman, the heiti does not occur in other sources, but cf. the m. name Ǫflugbarði in Bragi Þórr 3/3 (see Note there).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Motz, Lotte. 1981. ‘Giantesses and Their Names’. FS 15, 495-511.
  3. Internal references
  4. Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Bragi inn gamli Boddason, Þórr’s fishing 3’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 49.

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