[3] dóttir Hrímnis ‘daughter of Hrímnir <giant>’: The name Hrímnir is well-attested as a common name for a giant; the earliest example occurs in the giantess-kenning drós Hrímnis ‘woman of Hrímnir’ in Eil Þdr 18/6III. Since the name Hrímnir is derived from hrím which can mean both ‘(hoar)frost’ and ‘soot’, it is not clear whether Hrímnir means ‘Frosty’ or ‘Sooty’; cf. Þul Jǫtna I 1/5III. See Note to Ket 13/1-3.
References
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Jǫtna heiti I 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. 707.
- Edith Marold (ed.) 2017, ‘Eilífr Goðrúnarson, Þórsdrápa 18’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 115.
- Beatrice La Farge (ed.) 2017, ‘Ketils saga hœngs 13 (Ketill hœngr, Lausavísur 8)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 563.