Note to Þul Orma 2III
[5] grímr (m.) ‘masked one’: Grímr is probably derived from gríma f. ‘mask’ or it may be a pers. n. Grímr was a name for Óðinn when he travelled in disguise (see Þul Óðins 3/1), and it could well be that his name was turned into a heiti for ‘serpent’ owing to myths about his shape-changing (e.g. the myth of the mead of poetry, where Óðinn appears in the shape of a snake). As a serpent-heiti, grímr is not attested in skaldic poetry before C14th (see Árni Gd 58/6IV), however, and it is therefore possible that Árni took the heiti either directly from this þula or from the list of orma heiti in Skm (SnE 1998, I, 90; see Gurevich 1992c, 37). Grímr is also the name of a dwarf and a heiti for ‘goat’ (Þul Dverga 2/1, Þul Hafrs 1/6).
References
- Bibliography
- Gurevich, Elena A. 1992c. ‘Þulur in Skáldskaparmál: An Attempt at Skaldic Lexicology’. ANF 107, 35-52.
- SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- 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 23 April 2024)
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Hafrs 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. 893.
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Dverga heiti 2’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 695.
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Óðins nǫfn 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. 739.
- Not published: do not cite (Árni Gd 58IV)