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Note to Þul Á 2III

[3] ógn (f.) ‘terror’: According to Fritzner: ógn, two rivers of this name are located in Jæren, Rogaland, and in Nord-Trøndelag (Rygh 1904, 178; ÍO: Ógn). As a heiti for ‘river’, ógn is not found in skaldic verse, but it occurs in the gold-kenning ljómi ógnar ‘beam of the river’ in HHund I 21/6 (cf. also S-G II, 83) and in Fáfn 42/8. Finnur Jónsson (1933-4, 267) argues that this river-heiti is identical with the noun ógn f. ‘terror, dread’. However, according to Nordenstreng (1934), ógn means ‘water’ and is related to Ægir, the name of the sea-giant in Old Norse myth, and *ahwu, cf. ON á ‘river’, Lat. aqua ‘water’. Alternatively, the correct form of the name could be ǫgn (cf. the C variant ‘augn’) and related to the verb aga ‘flow’ (ÍO: Ögn, Ǫgn 3). The A, B (744ˣ) variant, ofn, could be the Old Norse name for the river Avon in England (OE Afen, Afene, Afne; so Bugge 1875, 224). This heiti is also recorded in st. 3/7 below.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Fritzner = Fritzner, Johan. 1883-96. Ordbog over det gamle norske sprog. 3 vols. Kristiania (Oslo): Den norske forlagsforening. 4th edn. Rpt. 1973. Oslo etc.: Universitetsforlaget.
  3. ÍO = Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon. 1989. Íslensk orðsifjabók. Reykjavík: Orðabók Háskólans.
  4. Bugge, Sophus. 1875. ‘Biskop Bjarne Kolbeinssøn og Snorres Edda’. ÅNOH, 209-46.
  5. 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.
  6. Finnur Jónsson. 1933-4. ‘Þulur’. APS 8, 262-72.
  7. Nordenstreng, Rolf. 1934. ‘Älvnamnen Ógn (Ljungan) och Ógna, sjönamnen Ogan och Ognesjön m. fl.’. In Rooth 1934, 254-7.
  8. Rygh, Oluf. 1904. Norske elvenavne. Efter offentlig foranstaltning utgivne med tilføiede forklaringer af K. Rygh. Kristiania (Oslo): Cammermeyer.
  9. Internal references
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