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Note to Þul Tungls 1III

[4] glámr (m.) ‘twilight’: Although there is no evidence that this word was used in poetry as a heiti for ‘moon’, the Shetland Norn word glom(er) ‘moon, pale light’ shows that glámr as a moon-heiti was no invention of the þulur (cf. also ModIcel. glámur ‘a horse with a white blaze on the forehead’, OE glōm, glōmung ‘twilight’, ModEngl. gloom; AEW: glámr). The word is also found among names of giants (see Þul Jǫtna II 1/8), but Glámr is most famous as Grettir Ásmundarson’s adversary in Gr (chs 32-5, ÍF 7, 107-23).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. AEW = Vries, Jan de. 1962. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2nd rev. edn. Rpt. 1977. Leiden: Brill.
  3. ÍF 7 = Grettis saga Ásmundarsonar. Ed. Guðni Jónsson. 1936.
  4. Internal references
  5. 2022, ‘ Anonymous, Grettis saga Ásmundarsonar’ in Margaret Clunies Ross, Kari Ellen Gade and Tarrin Wills (eds), Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 5. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 640-806. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=70> (accessed 26 April 2024)
  6. Not published: do not cite (GrettV)
  7. Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Jǫtna heiti II 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. 719.

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