[5] Svartr: Lit. ‘black one’. Cf. the giant-names Surtr (l. 1), Alsvartr (l. 7) and Ámr (l. 8) also denoting ‘black, dark’. The name Svartr is known from the fornaldarsögur (a monster-like man, the enemy of Oddr in Ǫrvar-Odds saga chs 23, 30, FSN II, 257, 294, 296), but it does not occur elsewhere in poetry.
References
- Bibliography
- FSN = Rafn, Carl Christian, ed. 1829-30. Fornaldar sögur nordrlanda. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Popp.
- Internal references
- 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Ǫrvar-Odds saga’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 804. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=35> (accessed 25 April 2024)