[1] bolmr (m.) ‘mighty one’: So C. This poetic word for ‘bear’ occurs in a kenning for ‘giant’ (Þjóð Haustl 18/4). The origin of the heiti is obscure. It could mean ‘mighty one’ (cf. ModSwed. dialects bolmstark ‘very strong’; AEW: bolmr). All other mss have ‘blomr’, presumably with metathesis. Blómr is also recorded in the list of bjarnar heiti in Skm (SnE 1998, I, 88).
References
- Bibliography
- AEW = Vries, Jan de. 1962. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2nd rev. edn. Rpt. 1977. Leiden: Brill.
- SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Snorri Sturluson, Skáldskaparmál’ 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=112> (accessed 24 April 2024)
- Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Þjóðólfr ór Hvini, Haustlǫng 18’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 459.