Grýlu heiti — Þul GrýluIII
Anonymous Þulur
Elena Gurevich 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Grýlu 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. 965. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=3244> (accessed 28 March 2024)
This
þula (
Þul Grýlu) is recorded only in ms. A of
Skm (
SnE). It has the heading
Grýlu heiti ‘Names for Grýla’, written in red ink as usual in A. The
þula enumerates
heiti for Grýla, a monstrous female vixen (also mentioned in
Þul Trollkvenna 1/4), along with the names of male folklore monsters. Grýla is sometimes described as a fox with many tails, whose name is traditionally used to frighten children (see
Gunnell 1995, 160-79). Hence the unique content of this
þula, in which names of popular folklore characters are listed alongside terms for ‘fox’. In the
þulur-sequence,
Þul Grýlu is preceded by
Þul Hugar ok hjarta and followed by
Þul á hendi. The
heiti in this
þula are not recorded in
LaufE or RE 1665.
References
- Bibliography
- Gunnell, Terry. 1995. The Origins of Drama in Scandinavia. Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell & Brewer.
- 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].
- (forthcoming), ‘ Snorri Sturluson, Skáldskaparmál’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=112> (accessed 28 March 2024)
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Trollkvenna 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. 724.
- Elena Gurevich 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Hugar heiti ok hjarta’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 964. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=3243> (accessed 28 March 2024)
- Elena Gurevich 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Heiti á hendi’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 967. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=3245> (accessed 28 March 2024)
- (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Laufás Edda’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=10928> (accessed 28 March 2024)
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