[7] eldi Órunar ‘the fire of Órun <river> [GOLD]’: Gold-kennings were commonly formed from base words meaning ‘fire’ and determinants referring to any body of water, including rivers (cf. Meissner 225, 229-37; SnE 1998, I, 41). The river-name Órun is recorded only here and in Þul Á 2/5, where it occurs as a substantivised adj. having the meaning ‘furious one’; see Note to that line.
References
- Bibliography
- Meissner = Meissner, Rudolf. 1921. Die Kenningar der Skalden: Ein Beitrag zur skaldischen Poetik. Rheinische Beiträge und Hülfsbücher zur germanischen Philologie und Volkskunde 1. Bonn and Leipzig: Schroeder. Rpt. 1984. Hildesheim etc.: Olms.
- SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Á 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. 840.