[3] hræva-Gautr ‘Gautr of corpses’: Either a sword from Götaland (ON Gautland) (so Falk 1914b, 52), or possibly connected with Gautr, a name for Óðinn (see Þul Óðins 1/6; cf. also SnE 1998, II, 321). The first element of the cpd (hræva) is gen. pl. of hræ n. ‘corpse’. The cpd is not found elsewhere.
References
- Bibliography
- Falk, Hjalmar. 1914b. Altnordische Waffenkunde. Videnskapsselskapets skrifter, II. Hist.-filos. kl. 1914, 6. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.
- SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Óðins nǫfn 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. 732.