[All]: Some of the heiti listed in this þula (e.g. Gnepja, l. 5, gýgr ‘ogress’ and fála ‘troll-woman’, l. 6) are terms or names for troll-women, and all heiti are f. According to Skm (SnE 1998, I, 67), these heiti are formally half-kennings: øxar kalla menn trǫllkvinna heitum ok kenna við blóð eða benjar eða skóg eða við ‘people call axes by the names of troll-women and qualify them with terms for blood or wounds or forest or tree’.
References
- Bibliography
- 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 27 April 2024)