[8] vígglǫð (f.) ‘battle-bright one’: Or ‘battle-glad one’, from víg n. and the adj. glaðr ‘glad, bright’. This heiti is not found in poetry, but cf. the shield-heiti vígglaðr m. ‘battle-bright one’ (Þul Skjaldar 1/8). Vígglǫð is also the name of a troll-woman (Þul Trollkvenna 5/5). Alternatively, the word may be a characterising heiti invented for the þulur and applied to several referents (on this type of heiti, see Gurevich 1992c).
References
- Bibliography
- Gurevich, Elena A. 1992c. ‘Þulur in Skáldskaparmál: An Attempt at Skaldic Lexicology’. ANF 107, 35-52.
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Trollkvenna heiti 5’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 730.
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Skjaldar 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. 823.