[3] Víparr: A hap. leg. of uncertain meaning. According to ÍO: Víparr, the name may be related to veipa f. ‘wimple, woman’s hood’, vippa ‘turn, twist’ and vipra ‘draw the lips together’. Alternatively, Víparr could be derived from vípa f. ‘stiff hair’ (see AEW: vípa). The Tˣ variant ‘viðarr’ is most likely confused with the name of the god Víðarr or Víðarr inn þǫgli ‘the Silent’ (cf. Gylf, SnE 2005, 26).
References
- Bibliography
- AEW = Vries, Jan de. 1962. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2nd rev. edn. Rpt. 1977. Leiden: Brill.
- ÍO = Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon. 1989. Íslensk orðsifjabók. Reykjavík: Orðabók Háskólans.
- 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 26 April 2024)