[1] Valr ok Haukr ‘Valr and Haukr’: Their names mean ‘Falcon’ and ‘Hawk’ respectively, thus denoting their bravery; cf. Note to Hálf 29/1. They are named as brothers in the prose text (Hálf 1981, ch. 5, 177, ll. 16-17).
References
- Bibliography
- Hálf 1981 = Seelow, Hubert, ed. 1981. Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka. RSÁM 20. Reykjavík: Stofnun Árna Magnússonar.
- Internal references
- Hubert Seelow (ed.) 2017, ‘Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka 29 (Innsteinn Gunnlaðarson, Innsteinskviða 9)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 327.