Þul Eyja 6III
Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Eyja heiti 6’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 980.
Fjón ‘Fyn’
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Fjón (noun n.): [Fyn]
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[1] Fjón ‘Fyn’: See Note to [All] above.
Fjǫlbyrja ‘Fjǫlbyrja’
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Fjǫlbyrja (noun f.)
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[1] Fjǫlbyrja: Lit. ‘(a place of) many sailing winds’. Possibly present-day Fjelbergøy (cf. Sandnes and Stemshaug 1990, 108; Heggstad et al. 2008: Fjǫlbyrja) on the south side of Klosterfjorden near Stord in Sunnhordland. If so, the name, which in Old Norse had the meaning ‘(a place of) many sailing winds’, has been reinterpreted in such a way that the second element ‑byrr ‘sailing wind’ is taken in the meaning ‑berg ‘mountain’.
Fríkn ‘Fríkn’
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Frikn (noun f.)
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[2] Fríkn: Or Frikn (so Skj B). This island has not been identified. Perhaps earlier Frøkø in Nordmøre (so Munch 1846, 91; cf. Frøkasund in Saxo 2005, I, 6, 4, 4, pp. 372-3).
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
Senja ‘Senja’
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Senja (noun f.): Senja
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[2] Senja: A large island south of Tromsø in Troms, northern Norway (see also Note to Þul Islands l. 6 and ESk Lv 15/4).
Selund ‘Sjælland’
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Selund (noun f.): Sjælland, Zealand
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[3] Selund ‘Sjælland’: I.e. Zealand, mentioned again in l. 5 as Sjóland (see Note to [All] above). In skaldic verse the name occurs only in its old form Selund.
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
Dímun ‘Dímun’
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Dímun (noun f.)
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[3] Dímun: See Note to [All] above.
Sæla ‘Selja’
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Sæla (noun f.)
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[4] Sæla ‘Selja’: The same as Selja (see Note to st. 2/1). The name is also given in the form Sæla in Óláfs saga helga (ÓHHkr ch. 29, ÍF 27, 36). According to the saga account, this was an island located út frá Staði ‘off the promontory of Stad’, where Óláfr Haraldsson first put ashore when he returned to Norway. Because the literal meaning of this name is ‘luck’, the king believed it was a good omen.
Þumla ‘Þumla’
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Þumla (noun f.)
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[4] Þumla: This island has not been identified (Munch 1846, 91).
Úsna ‘Usedom’
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Usna (noun f.)
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[5] Úsna ‘Usedom’: Or Usna. Presumably Usedom (Uznam) in Pomerania (Munch 1846, 91), located in the Baltic Sea.
Sjóland ‘Sjælland’
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Sjóland (noun n.)
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[5] Sjóland ‘Sjælland’: See Selund (l. 3 above).
Askrǫð ‘Askrova’
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Askrǫð (noun f.)
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[6] Askrǫð ‘Askrova’: Located in Sunnfjord, western Norway.
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
Síld ‘Silda’
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Sild (noun f.)
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[6] Síld ‘Silda’: There are two islands of this name, one located southwest of Selja (see l. 4) near Vågsøy in Sogn og Fjordane, another east of Loppa in Lopphavet, Finnmark, northern Norway.
Ála ‘Ála’
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Ála (noun f.)
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[7] Ála: Perhaps one of the small islands near Ålesund, west of Borgund (see the next name).
Borgund ‘Borgund’
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Borgund (noun f.): Borgund
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[7] Borgund: Located near Ålesund in Sunnmøre, western Norway. See also Note to Þul Islands l. 8.
Erri ‘Ærø’
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Erri (noun f.): [Ærø]
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[8] Erri ‘Ærø’: A small island south of Fyn in Denmark (see Note to [All] above). See also Ív Sig 19/4II.
Torgar ‘Torget’
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Torgar (noun f.): [Torget]
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[8] Torgar ‘Torget’: See Note to Þul Islands l. 8.
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The place names outside Norway listed in this stanza are Fyn (Fjón l. 1), Sjælland (Selund, Sjóland ll. 3, 5) and Ærø (Erri l. 8) in Denmark, one of the Faroe Islands, Dímun (or Dímon l. 3), either Stóra or Lítla Dímun, and Úsna (l. 5), perhaps Usedom in Pomerania.
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