[3] Mǫrn (f.) ‘Marne’: So Tˣ, A, B. Either the Marne in France or the Norwegian Mandalselva; cf. the Modern Norwegian town Mandal (< ON Marnadalr; see ÍO: Mörn 2, Rygh 1904, 155 and Morn in the next line). Mǫrn is also the name of a giantess (Þjóð Haustl 6/4 and 12/8), and it is not clear if there is a connection between the river-heiti and the name of the giantess (see AEW: Mǫrn). The R, C variant mǫra (‘maura’) could be the Old Norse name for Strath More in Scotland (CVC 780).
References
- Bibliography
- AEW = Vries, Jan de. 1962. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2nd rev. edn. Rpt. 1977. Leiden: Brill.
- CVC = Cleasby, Richard, Gudbrand Vigfusson [Guðbrandur Vigfússon] and W. A. Craigie. 1957. An Icelandic-English Dictionary. 2nd edn. Oxford: Clarendon.
- ÍO = Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon. 1989. Íslensk orðsifjabók. Reykjavík: Orðabók Háskólans.
- Rygh, Oluf. 1904. Norske elvenavne. Efter offentlig foranstaltning utgivne med tilføiede forklaringer af K. Rygh. Kristiania (Oslo): Cammermeyer.
- Internal references
- Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Þjóðólfr ór Hvini, Haustlǫng 6’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 440.