[5, 6] Síð … Sœkin: These names are also found in Grí 27/1-2 (NK 62): Síð oc Víð, | Sœkin oc Eikin. In Gylf (SnE 2005, 33), both Síð and Sœkin are rivers flowing from Hvergelmir. Síð f. nom. sg. is either from the adj. síðr ‘long, hanging down, overhanging’, ‘wide, large’ (Heggstad et al. 2008: síðr 1-2) or from the adv. síð ‘late, slowly’ (LP: Síð), which is less likely. Sœkin f. nom. sg. (Sekin in Gylf, Sœkin in Grí) is derived from the adj. sækinn ‘plucky’. Alternatively, the heiti could be connected with the weak verb sœkja ‘seek, proceed’ and mean ‘forward-rushing one’ (S-G I, 198; Hale 1983, 168). Neither Síð nor Sœkin appears in other sources.
References
- Bibliography
- 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.
- NK = Neckel, Gustav and Hans Kuhn (1899), eds. 1983. Edda: Die Lieder des Codex Regius nebst verwandten Denkmälern. 2 vols. I: Text. 5th edn. Heidelberg: Winter.
- SnE 2005 = Snorri Sturluson. 2005. Edda: Prologue and Gylfaginning. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2nd edn. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- S-G = Gering, Hugo. 1927-31. Kommentar zu den Liedern der Edda. Nach dem Tode des Verfassers herausgegeben von B. Sijmons. I: Götterlieder. II: Heldenlieder. Halle: Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses.
- Hale, Christopher. 1983. ‘The River Names in Grímnismál 27-29’. In Glendinning et al. 1983, 165-86.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Snorri Sturluson, Gylfaginning’ 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=113> (accessed 26 April 2024)
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