Note to ÚlfrU Húsdr 3^III

[2] ǫndótts ‘of the hostile’: This adj. otherwise appears only in Þry 27/5, where it qualifies the noun augu ‘eyes’. In Þul Jǫtna I 4/6, Ǫndóttr is the name of a giant (variant in ms. C only). The word is related to ǫndverðr ‘lying opposite’, ‘firmly facing that which lies opposite’ (Fritzner: ǫndóttr). Thus it could be rendered more exactly as ‘hostilely glaring’, which is an apt description of Þórr as he stares at the World Serpent or, disguised as Freyja in Þry, as he lifts the bridal veil to glare at his enemy, the giant Þrymr.

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