Note to Þul Ara 1III
[1] gallópnir (m.) ‘shrill-crier’: The first element in this heiti is the adj. gallr ‘shrill, piercing’; the second is derived from óp n. ‘shouting, crying’. The emendation ‑ópnir is supported by the form of this heiti in the list of eagle-heiti in Skm (SnE 1998, I, 92, II, 284) and in skaldic stanzas (the only preserved examples are Eil Þdr 3/7 and Skúli Svǫlðr 1/4 and both have ‑ópnis). The form ‑ofnir recorded in mss A and B has parallels in Þul Óðins 7/4 (Ófnir/Ofnir) and in the name of the rooster Viðofnir in Þul Hana l. 4 (see Note there). It is likely that ‘gallofnir’ in A and B was influenced by these names.
References
- Bibliography
- 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 24 April 2024)
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Óðins nǫfn 7’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 748.
- Edith Marold (ed.) 2017, ‘Eilífr Goðrúnarson, Þórsdrápa 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. 80.
- Elena Gurevich 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Hana 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. 947. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=3239> (accessed 24 April 2024)
- Kate Heslop (ed.) 2017, ‘Skúli Þorsteinsson, Poem about Svǫlðr 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. 361.