Note to Þul Ara 1III
[2] andhrímnir (m.) ‘counter-screamer’: As an eagle-heiti the name perhaps means ‘counter-screamer’ (see Note to Viðhrímnir in Þul Óðins 1/6 and Falk 1924, 33). Andhrímnir (in this case probably lit. ‘sooty-face’) is also known from Old Norse myth, however, where it is the name of the cook who boils the boar Sæhrímnir (see Þul Galtar l. 4 and Note there) in Valhǫll (cf. Grí 18/1-3; SnE 2005, 32). It is impossible to say whether there is any connection between the mythical cook and an eagle (for other instances of change in the referent of mythical names in the þulur, see e.g. sessrúmnir ‘roomy-seater’ in Þul Skipa 1/4 and Gurevich 1992c, 42-7). For the two possible derivations of the word hrímnir, see Notes to Þul Galtar l. 2 and Þul Hjálms 1/4.
References
- Bibliography
- Gurevich, Elena A. 1992c. ‘Þulur in Skáldskaparmál: An Attempt at Skaldic Lexicology’. ANF 107, 35-52.
- SnE 2005 = Snorri Sturluson. 2005. Edda: Prologue and Gylfaginning. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2nd edn. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Falk, Hjalmar. 1924. Odensheite. Skrifter utg. av Videnskapsselskapet i Kristiania. II. Hist.-filos. kl. 1924, 10. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Óðins nǫfn 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. 732.
- 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, Skipa 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. 861.
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- Elena Gurevich 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Galtar 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. 900. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=3215> (accessed 24 April 2024)