[4] gallópnis ‘of the eagle’: Lit. ‘of the shrill-crier’. An eagle-heiti, from gallr ‘ringing, resounding’ (a variant of gjallr) and ópnir ‘crier’ (AEW: gallr). It also appears in Eil Þdr 3/6, 7 by tmesis (i. e. as gall- and ‑ópnis), and in the þulur. For a discussion, see Note to Þul Ara 1/1.
References
- Bibliography
- AEW = Vries, Jan de. 1962. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2nd rev. edn. Rpt. 1977. Leiden: Brill.
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Ara 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. 950.
- Edith Marold (ed.) 2017, ‘Eilífr Goðrúnarson, Þórsdrápa 3’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 80.