[1] þrǫmmungr (m.) ‘mailed sculpin’: Triglops murrayi, ModIcel. þrömmungur. In Old Norse, the heiti occurs only in the þulur (see also Þul Hauks 2/6). According to Nordgaard (1912, 60), þrǫmmungr may be a kind of sprætfisk ‘floundering fish’, while de Vries (AEW: þrǫmmun, þrǫmmungr) interprets this fish-heiti as ‘one jumping out of the water’.
References
- Bibliography
- AEW = Vries, Jan de. 1962. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2nd rev. edn. Rpt. 1977. Leiden: Brill.
- Nordgaard, O. 1912. ‘Fiskenavnene i Snorres Edda’. MM, 54-66.
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Hauks heiti 2’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 943.