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Note to Þul Hauks 2III

[5] forseti (m.) ‘watchful one’: Perhaps lit. ‘one being on guard’ or ‘one preparing an ambush’ (cf. sitja fyrir ‘lie in wait for’). If so, this is a characterising heiti (see Gurevich 1992c, 44-6). Alternatively, the hawk-heiti could have been derived from the name of a heathen deity, Baldr’s son Forseti (see Þul Ása II 9), but there is no evidence for a connection between that god and a hawk. As a hawk-heiti the word does not occur elsewhere.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Gurevich, Elena A. 1992c. ‘Þulur in Skáldskaparmál: An Attempt at Skaldic Lexicology’. ANF 107, 35-52.
  3. Internal references
  4. Elena Gurevich 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Ása heiti II’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 760. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=3189> (accessed 24 April 2024)

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