[2] Vingnis ‘of Vingnir <giant>’: Here and in Þul Jǫtna I 5/8 Vingnir appears to be the name of a giant, but elsewhere it is applied to Þórr (SnE 2005, 54; cf. Vm 51) or his foster-father (SnE 1998, I, 14), probably following a learned geneaology in the Prologue to SnE (SnE 2005, 5), while in yet another context the phrase stjóri Vingnis ‘Vingnir’s guide’ appears in a list of heiti for oxen (Þul Øxna 1/8).
References
- Bibliography
- SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- SnE 2005 = Snorri Sturluson. 2005. Edda: Prologue and Gylfaginning. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2nd edn. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Internal references
- Edith Marold 2017, ‘Snorra Edda (Prologue, Gylfaginning, Skáldskaparmál)’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols [check printed volume for citation].
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Øxna 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. 885.