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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Þul Jarðar 1III

[3] Fjǫrgyn: A name for Jǫrð, Þórr’s mother (cf. Vsp 56/10, Hárb 56/7), which sometimes appears in skaldic poetry as a heiti for ‘earth’. Cf. Goth. fairguni, OE fiergin-, fyrgen- ‘mountain’ and the names of thunder-gods among the etymological parallels to this name in other Indo-European languages, such as Old Lithuanian Perkúnas, Old Slavonic Perunu (AEW: fjǫrgyn).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. AEW = Vries, Jan de. 1962. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2nd rev. edn. Rpt. 1977. Leiden: Brill.
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  4. Not published: do not cite ()
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