[15] Gimir (m.): Lit. ‘fiery one’, from gim n., a poetic word for ‘fire’ (Þul Elds 1/1). Cf. Gimlé < *gim-hlé ‘fire-shelter’, which in Old Norse myth was the hall, brighter than the sun, at the southernmost end of heaven (cf. Vsp 64 and SnE 2005, 9, 20, 53). The A variant Grímr must be a scribal error.
References
- Bibliography
- SnE 2005 = Snorri Sturluson. 2005. Edda: Prologue and Gylfaginning. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2nd edn. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Elds 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. 921.
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