[7] þruma (f.) ‘slope’: Probably the same word as ModIcel. þruma ‘steep slope’. It is also the name of an island in Norway (Þul Eyja 3/8). As a heiti for ‘earth’ the word does not occur elsewhere in poetry.
References
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Eyja heiti 3’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 976.