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Note to Skinnhúfa Lv 1VIII (HjǪ 45)

[3] veitti Bendli bana ‘it gave death to Bendill <giant>’: The diminutive bendill (from band ‘band, bond’) occurs only here apparently as a giant-name; elsewhere it is found among heiti for ‘seed, grain’ (Þul Sáðs 2/5III and Note), the equivalent of ModIcel. bendill, ModNorw. bendel ‘a band of straw around a sheaf of corn’ (AEW: bendill). ÍBR5ˣ’s belu may recall the name of the giant Beli, whom the god Freyr killed with a hart’s horn (SnE 2005, 31). The giant of HjǪ is not given a name in the prose text.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. AEW = Vries, Jan de. 1962. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2nd rev. edn. Rpt. 1977. Leiden: Brill.
  3. SnE 2005 = Snorri Sturluson. 2005. Edda: Prologue and Gylfaginning. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2nd edn. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
  4. Internal references
  5. 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Hjálmþés saga ok Ǫlvis’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 488. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=49> (accessed 26 April 2024)
  6. Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Sáðs 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. 986.

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