We use cookies on this website, mainly to provide a secure browsing
experience but also to collect statistics on how the website is used.
You can find out more about the cookies we set, the information we store and how we use it on
the cookies page.
[6] þura (f.) ‘whizzer’: This heiti is a hap. leg. related to the weak verb þyrja ‘sweep, rush along noisily’ (attested only in poetry; see Falk 1914b, 99 and SnE 1998, II, 437).