Anonymous Þulur, Á heiti

Elena Gurevich

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Á heiti — Þul Á^III

Elena Gurevich 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Á 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. 838. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=3205> (accessed 26 April 2024)

This þula (Þul Á) enumerates heiti for ‘river’. It is recorded in mss R (main ms.), Tˣ, C, A and B (and 744ˣ) of Skm (SnE). In mss A and B the þula has the chapter headings Á heiti ‘Names for river’ (so A, where it is written in red ink) or Vatna heiti ‘Names for rivers’ (so B); the heading is illegible in R and omitted in Tˣ and C. Þul Á is preceded by Þul Sjóvar and followed by Þul Fiska in all of the mss. The þula mostly contains mythical names. Some river-names are geographical, but it is impossible to say whether all of the heiti listed in Þul Á are proper names, since many of them are not known from other sources (e.g. glit ‘shining’ and gera ‘greedy one’ st. 1/1, glóð ‘glowing’ st. 1/2, ving and freka ‘voracious one’ st. 1/4, 5, einstika ‘lone-measuring one’ st. 1/6, ró ‘calm’ and ekla ‘want’ st. 1/7). Some of the geographical place names identified by earlier scholars are no longer extant, and, moreover, the locations of the rivers provided by the secondary sources are often unspecific or not given at all, and they are impossible to trace on modern maps. Hence some of the information in the Notes to this edition remain tentative.

Around thirty-five of the heiti found in this þula are also recorded in LaufE (LaufE 1979, 261-2, 337; mss papp10ˣ(39r), 2368ˣ(85-86), 743ˣ(67v)), but not in the same order as in the þula, and from the Y version of LaufE they were copied into RE 1665(Dd3). Neither LaufE nor RE 1665 has been considered in the present edition.

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