[5] þrór (m.) ‘thriver’: Cf. the weak verb þróask ‘thrive, grow’. This word is also found as names for Óðinn and a dwarf (Þul Óðins 8/4, Þul Dverga 4/5) and as a heiti for ‘boar’ (Þul Galtar l. 7), but þrór does not occur elsewhere as a heiti for ‘dwarf’, ‘boar’ or ‘sword’. According to Falk (1914b, 64), the sword-heiti is possibly derived from the boar-heiti and could mean ‘wild boar’ (perhaps originally a proper name). The cpd (normalised) malm-Þórr ‘metal-Þórr’ in B is a lectio facilior (the LaufE mss have (normalised) malmr and þrór).
References
- Bibliography
- Falk, Hjalmar. 1914b. Altnordische Waffenkunde. Videnskapsselskapets skrifter, II. Hist.-filos. kl. 1914, 6. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Dverga heiti 4’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 699.
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Óðins nǫfn 8’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 751.
- Elena Gurevich 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Galtar heiti’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 900. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=3215> (accessed 20 April 2024)
- (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Laufás Edda’ 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=10928> (accessed 20 April 2024)