[6] vindr (m.) ‘wind’: As a horse-heiti, vindr is not found elsewhere. The meaning is perhaps ‘swift as the wind’ (cf. veðr ‘gust’ in the next line). The word is also attested in the þulur as the name of a giant (see Þul Jǫtna I 5/7).
References
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Jǫtna heiti I 5’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 715.