[5] Sylgr: Lit. ‘swallower’, from the Old Norse verb svelgja ‘swallow’. Cf. the Icelandic river-name Svelgsá and Svelga in Norway (Hale 1983, 179). This mythical name is listed in Grí 28/7 and Gylf (SnE 2005, 9) along with Ylgr, lit. ‘she-wolf’ (l. 7 below).
References
- Bibliography
- SnE 2005 = Snorri Sturluson. 2005. Edda: Prologue and Gylfaginning. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2nd edn. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- 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 27 April 2024)
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