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Note to Hjálm Lv 17VIII (Ǫrv 27)

[All]: Again the list of names is a mixed bag, but includes several known from legendary sagas and poems, such as Fjalarr (variously a dwarf-name, rooster-name or a giant-name; cf. LP: Fjalarr, Þul Hana 1/2III and Note, Þul Jǫtna I 3/6III and Note), Víkarr, a king in Norway in Gautr, Guttormr (son of Gjúki, according to several poems of the Poetic Edda: Gríp 50/3, Brot 4/3, Sigsk 20/1, Guðr II 7/7). Snerill ‘Twister, Turner’ is probably a nickname in origin (CVC, AEW: snerill), while Tindr, Tyrfingr and the two Haddingjar have clearly been borrowed from the list of the twelve berserk brothers in Ǫrv 5/5-6; see Notes to those lines.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
  3. CVC = Cleasby, Richard, Gudbrand Vigfusson [Guðbrandur Vigfússon] and W. A. Craigie. 1957. An Icelandic-English Dictionary. 2nd edn. Oxford: Clarendon.
  4. Internal references
  5. 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Gautreks saga’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 241. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=9> (accessed 16 April 2024)
  6. Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Jǫtna heiti I 3’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 710.
  7. Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Hana 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. 947.
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  11. Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 5 (Hjálmarr inn hugumstóri, Lausavísur 1)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 816.

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