[6] Stígandi: Lit. ‘stepping one’ or ‘striding one’ (pres. part. of the strong verb stíga ‘step, stride’). A giant of this name is not mentioned elsewhere, but Stígandi is also a pers. n. (Gǫngu-Hrólfs saga ch. 6, FSN III, 255) and the name of a ship (Vatnsdœla saga ch. 16, ÍF 8, 43-7).
References
- Bibliography
- FSN = Rafn, Carl Christian, ed. 1829-30. Fornaldar sögur nordrlanda. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Popp.
- ÍF 8 = Vatnsdœla saga. Ed. Einar Ólafur Sveinsson. 1939.
- Internal references
- 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Gǫngu-Hrólfs saga’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 298. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=89> (accessed 26 April 2024)
- (forthcoming), ‘ Anonymous, Vatnsdœla saga’ in Margaret Clunies Ross, Kari Ellen Gade and Tarrin Wills (eds), Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 5. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=128> (accessed 26 April 2024)