[7] draum-Vǫr ‘dream-Vǫr <goddess>’: A hap. leg. Vǫr is a goddess (see Þul Ásynja 2/4 and Þul Kvenna II 3/5; cf. draum-Njǫrun ‘dream-Njǫrun’, l. 4 above). This name for ‘night’ might also be interpreted as ‘dream-guarding one’ (from the f. adj. vǫr ‘wary, careful’).
References
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Ásynja 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. 765.
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Kvenna heiti ókend 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. 963.