[6] Hallinskíði: Probably lit. ‘one with slanting sticks’ from the adj. hallr ‘slanting, leaning to one side’ and skíð n. ‘stick of wood, ski’ (so Turville-Petre 1964, 151; for other interpretations, see AEW: Hallinskíði). The word does not occur elsewhere as a ram-heiti, but in Gylf (SnE 2005, 25) Hallinskíði is a name for the god Heimdallr. Considering that this is not the only heiti for ‘ram’ connected with the name of that god in the present þula (cf. Heimdali in l. 8), Turville-Petre (loc. cit.) suggests that Heimdallr was associated with the ram. See also Note to Glúmr Gráf 14/1, 2I.
References
- Bibliography
- AEW = Vries, Jan de. 1962. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2nd rev. edn. Rpt. 1977. Leiden: Brill.
- Turville-Petre, Gabriel. 1964. Myth and Religion of the North. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
- SnE 2005 = Snorri Sturluson. 2005. Edda: Prologue and Gylfaginning. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2nd edn. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Internal references
- (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 20 April 2024)
- Not published: do not cite ()
- Alison Finlay (ed.) 2012, ‘Glúmr Geirason, Gráfeldardrápa 14’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 264.