[5] litr (m.) ‘coloured one’: Most likely this is the same word as litr m. ‘colour, appearance’ (see Note to Þul Dverga 6/2). As an ox-name the heiti is found only in this þula, but it is also the name of a giant and a dwarf (Þul Dverga 6/2).
References
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Dverga heiti 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. 704.