[3] Duneyrr: In Grí 33/5 and Gylf (SnE 2005, 18), Duneyrr is one of four mythical stags (see Note to Duraþrór in l. 1 above). The name is also listed in Skm (SnE 1998, I, 88), but it does not occur in skaldic verse. The meaning of Duneyrr is not clear. According to Finnur Jónsson (cited in AEW: Duneyrr), it is formed from dun ‘noise’ and eyrr m. ‘gravelly bank’ and hence perhaps means ‘one running noisily across a gravelly bank’. Lindquist (1937a, 329) suggests that the second element is related to eyra n. ‘ear’ and that the name means ‘downy-eared one’ (dúneyrr) or ‘brown-eared one’ (dunneyrr).
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.
- SnE 2005 = Snorri Sturluson. 2005. Edda: Prologue and Gylfaginning. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2nd edn. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Lindquist, Ivar. 1937a. ‘Aljamarkir’. In [n. a.]. 1937. Mélanges linguistiques offerts à M. Holger Pedersen à l’occasion de son soixante-dixième anniversaire 7 avril 1937. Acta Jutlandica: Aarskrift for Aarhus universitet IX, 1. Copenhagen: Levin & Munksgaard, 323-33.
- 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 19 April 2024)
- (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 19 April 2024)
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