[8] jórekr (m.) ‘horse-powerful one’: From jór m. ‘steed’, a poetic term for ‘stallion’, and ‑rekr ‘mighty’ (< *ehwa-rīkaz; AEW: Jórekr). This is also a pers. n. (cf. Jórekr, the name of a sea-king in Þul Sækonunga 4/6) and jórekr is mentioned among the bjarnar heiti in Skm (SnE 1998, I, 88, II, 331). The word does not occur elsewhere as a heiti for ‘bear’.
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 9 May 2024)
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Sækonunga heiti 4’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 683.