[7] Ganglati: Lit. ‘walk-lazy one’ (from the strong verb ganga ‘go, walk’ or the noun gangr m. ‘walk, going’ and the adj. latr ‘lazy, slow’). A male slave or servant of Hel, Loki’s daughter, who presided over the realm of the dead in Old Norse myth. Cf. also the f. form Ganglǫt, Hel’s maid-servant (for both names, see Gylf, SnE 2005, 27). In C this name occupies the last position in st. 2 and is followed by Ofláti, Hlói ok Helreginn (st. 3/1-2).
References
- Bibliography
- SnE 2005 = Snorri Sturluson. 2005. Edda: Prologue and Gylfaginning. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2nd edn. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Snorri Sturluson, Gylfaginning’ 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=113> (accessed 8 May 2024)