[6] Njörun ‘Njǫrun <goddess>’: This name, perhaps originally a name for the earth-goddess (see de Vries 1931, 37-8, and cf. LP: Njǫrun), is listed as a goddess-name in Þul Ásynja 1/8III; see further ÍO: Njörn, Njörun. The name is otherwise mainly attested as a base-word in kennings for ‘woman’, as here.
References
- Bibliography
- LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
- ÍO = Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon. 1989. Íslensk orðsifjabók. Reykjavík: Orðabók Háskólans.
- Vries, Jan de. 1931. Contributions to the Study of Othin Especially in his Relation to Agricultural Practices in Modern Popular Lore. FF Communications 94. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia: Societas scientiarum Fennica.
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Ásynja heiti’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 762. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=3190> (accessed 25 April 2024)