[2] þær íbúur hrauns ‘those female inhabitants of the lava field [TROLL-WOMEN]’: This kenning is not attested elsewhere, but there are synonymous kennings for ‘giant’ in other texts: hraunbúi ‘lava-dweller’ (Hym 38/5, HHj 25/5), hraundrengr ‘rock-gentleman’ (Þjóð Haustl 17/6III). While the f. íbúa ‘female inhabitant’ is a hap. leg., the corresponding m. noun íbúi ‘male inhabitant’ is attested in Greg (Unger 1877, 1, 393).
References
- Bibliography
- Unger, C. R., ed. 1877. Heilagra manna søgur. Fortællinger og legender om hellige mænd og kvinder. 2 vols. Christiania (Oslo): Bentzen.
- Greg = Gregors saga páfa.
- Internal references
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- Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Þjóðólfr ór Hvini, Haustlǫng 17’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 457.