Note to Þul Galtar 1III
[2] hrímnir (m.) ‘sooty one’: This heiti means either ‘dark, sooty one’ (from hrím n. ‘soot’) or ‘screamer’ (from hreimr m. ‘scream, cry’). See Note to Þul Hjálms 1/4. Hrímnir is a giant-name (Þul Jǫtna I 1/5), and in the þulur the word is a heiti for ‘fire’ and ‘hawk’ (Þul Elds 1/8, Þul Hauks 1/4). Hrímnir is also used as a second element in certain mythical names (see Note to Sæhrímnir, l. 4 below). As a boar-heiti, hrímnir is found only in the present þula, but it appears with the sense ‘boar’ in several compounds, such as Sæhrímnir (l. 4) and valhrímnir ‘slaughter-boar’ (Þul Hjálms 1/4).
References
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Jǫtna heiti I 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 707.
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Elds heiti 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 921.
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Hjálms heiti 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 828.
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Hauks heiti 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 941.