Note to Þul Jǫtna I 1III
[6] Grímnir: This giant-name occurs in Hrólfs saga Gautrekssonar (FSN III, 122-6). Grímnir is the second element in other giant-names, such as Hrímgrímnir (st. 2/4), in which Hrím- probably refers to the giant’s origin from the hrímþursar (cf. Hrímnir in l. 5 above), and Aurgrímnir (Þul Jǫtna II 2/4), in which the first element is aurr m. ‘clay, mud, wet soil’. Grímnir means ‘masked one’ (cf. gríma f. ‘mask, hood’), and it is also a name for Óðinn and a heiti for ‘goat’ (Þul Hafrs 1/1; see Note there). The name is repeated in Þul Jǫtna II 1/7 and is also mentioned in Allra flagða þula (see Introduction), but it is not otherwise attested in poetry.
References
- Bibliography
- FSN = Rafn, Carl Christian, ed. 1829-30. Fornaldar sögur nordrlanda. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Popp.
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Hafrs heiti 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. 893.
- 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.
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Jǫtna heiti II 2’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 721.
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