Note to Þul Vargs 1III
[10] skolkinni (m.) ‘dark-cheeked one’: A hap. leg. The meaning of skol- is most likely ‘dark’ (AEW: skólkinni; Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon 1950, 123); cf. the adjectives skolbeinn ‘brown-legged’ and skolbrúnn ‘swarthy’. The second element, ‑kinni, is perhaps derived from kinn n. ‘cheek’ (see Notes to Freki, l. 5 above and Þul Ara l. 5). The first element is (normalised) skǫll- in R, Tˣ, C and it is also possible that skolkinni is not one, but two names, i.e. Skoll, or Skǫll, a mythical wolf (see Note to l. 2) and kinni (see Note to l. 5). The lack of alliteration in l. 10 suggests that this heiti was originally preceded by some other wolf-name with an initial vowel.
References
- Bibliography
- AEW = Vries, Jan de. 1962. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2nd rev. edn. Rpt. 1977. Leiden: Brill.
- Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon. 1950. Review of Ferdinand Holthausen. 1948. Vergleichendes und etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altwestnordischen. Göttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht. ANF 65, 116-30.
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Ara heiti’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 949. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=3240> (accessed 24 April 2024)