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Note to Þul Bjarnar 1III

[10] vetrliði (m.) ‘winter-survivor’: This heiti may denote a one-year-old bear (‘winter-passer’, from vetr m. ‘winter’ and a derivative of the strong verb líða ‘pass, go’; cf. vetrungr m. ‘one-year-old beast’, New Norw. vetle ‘one-year-old bear’) or it could refer to hibernation (SnE 1998, I, 88, II, 426). Like the preceding bear-heiti, fress ‘snarler’, this word occurs in poetry (LP: vetrliði). Vetrliði is also a m. pers. n.; cf. the C10th skald Vetrliði Sumarliðason (Vetrl).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
  3. SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
  4. Internal references
  5. R. D. Fulk 2017, ‘(Biography of) Vetrliði Sumarliðason’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 425.

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