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Note to Hjǫrleifr Lv 1VIII (Hálf 3)

[All]: The concept of a being that pollutes springs or streams by urinating in them is attested in Scandinavian folklore (cf. CVC: brunn-migi). It is sometimes imagined as a fox spirit, although here the being is called þuss ‘giant’ or ‘troll’. The cpd brunnmigi ‘spring-pisser’ appears only in the prose preceding this stanza and in Þul Grýlu 1/8III, where most of the other heiti in the stanza are terms for foxes.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. CVC = Cleasby, Richard, Gudbrand Vigfusson [Guðbrandur Vigfússon] and W. A. Craigie. 1957. An Icelandic-English Dictionary. 2nd edn. Oxford: Clarendon.
  3. Internal references
  4. Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Grýlu 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. 966.

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