[13] Hrjóðr (m.): The name is perhaps derived from the strong verb hrjóða ‘cover’ (see Heggstad et al. 2008: hrjóða II) and hence ‘coverer’, or from hrjóða ‘clear’. It could also be derived from hrjóða in the sense ‘stream, flow, scatter’ (e-u hrýðr ‘sth. streams, runs’), and, if so, the name may refer to the sky which sends storms and rain (see ÍO: hrjóð(u)r 2). Since the word also occurs in Þul Sólar l. 3, Falk (1925b, 37) argues that the actual meaning of this name is ‘effulgence’.
References
- Bibliography
- ÍO = Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon. 1989. Íslensk orðsifjabók. Reykjavík: Orðabók Háskólans.
- Falk, Hjalmar. 1925b. ‘Himmelsfaerene i vår gamle litteratur’. In [n. a.]. 1925. Heidersskrift til Marius Hægstad fraa vener og læresveinar, 15de juli 1925. Oslo: Norli, 34-8.
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Sólar 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. 909. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=3218> (accessed 23 April 2024)