Note to Eil Þdr 16^III

[6, 7] angrþjóf Óðins ‘of the sorrow-thief [HELPER] of Óðinn [= Þórr]’: The base-word of this kenning is itself a kenning, ‘anguish-thief [HELPER]’. The mss have ‘oðnis’ (not an Old Norse word) which all eds emend to Óðins. The scribes could have invented this form to repair what they perceived to be an inferior hending (with soðnum ‘boiled’). Rhyme on a single consonant in the postvocalic environment (here Óð- : soð-) is licit, however (Kuhn 1983, 77). The kenning refers to Þórr’s task of defeating giants who threaten Ásgarðr – the giants who are Óðinn’s ‘sorrow’. Most of the extant myths about Þórr deal with his role as giant-slayer.

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