Note to Anon Gát 1III
[8] þunga báru ‘heavy wave’: I.e dúfa, ‘wave, dip’ (in poetry; cf. ONP: 2 dúfa, LP: 2. dúfa) and ‘dove, pigeon’. Dúfa is listed in Skm as one of the nine daughters of Ægir and Rán (SnE 1998, I, 95); her name is thus used in poetry as a heiti for ‘wave’. Cf. Þul Sjóvar 4/6, Þul Waves 1/8. SnE 1848 prints heimbrimi, after the annotations of various mss. This is presumably an error for ModIcel. himbrimi, ON himbrin (Þul Fugla 2/3) ‘great northern diver’ (Colymbus glacialis). The second part of this cpd, brimi (more commonly brim; LP: brimi, brim) means ‘surf’ or ‘sea’.
References
- Bibliography
- SnE 1848 = Sveinbjörn Egilsson, ed. 1848. Edda Snorra Sturlusonar, eða Gylfaginning, Skáldskaparmál og Háttatal. Reykjavík: Prentsmiðja landsins.
- LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
- ONP = Degnbol, Helle et al., eds. 1989-. A Dictionary of Old Norse Prose / Ordbog over det norrøne prosasprog. 1-. Copenhagen: The Arnamagnæan Commission.
- SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Snorri Sturluson, Skáldskaparmál’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=112> (accessed 24 April 2024)
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Heiti for waves 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. 997.
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Sjóvar heiti 4’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 836.
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Fugla 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. 953.