Þul Veðra 1III
Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Veðra 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. 918.
Veðr ‘Gale’
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2. veðr (noun n.; °-s; -): weather, wind, storm
[1] Veðr: ‘[…]edr’ B, Veðr 744ˣ
byrr ‘fair breeze’
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byrr (noun m.; °-jar/-s; -ir, acc. -i/-u(SigrVal 188¹³)): favourable wind
vǫnsuðr ‘wanderer’
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vǫnsuðr (noun m.): [wanderer]
[1] vǫnsuðr: ‘v[…]dr’ B, ‘vo᷎nsudr’ 744ˣ
notes
[1] vǫnsuðr (m.) ‘wanderer’: The word is most likely related to New Norw. vansa ‘wander’ (ÍO: vönsuður, vǫnsuðr). This heiti is also a name for ‘wind’ in the language of the gods in the stanza from Alv cited in Skm (SnE 1998, I, 90): Vindr heitir með mǫnnum, | enn *vǫnsuðr með goðum ‘it is called vindr among men, but vǫnsuðr among the gods’ (so Tˣ(39r), A(14v) (twice), ‘vonsundr’ R(37v) by correction, ‘vofudr’ corrected above the line to ‘vonsudr’ C(7r)). Alv 20/2 (NK 127) in the Codex Regius version of the Poetic Edda gives the heiti váfuðr ‘swinging one’ (cf. Óðinn’s name Váfuðr; see Note to Þul Óðins 5/7). Neither term occurs in other sources.
vindr ‘wind’
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1. vindr (noun m.; °-s/-ar; -ar): wind
élreki ‘storm-driver’
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élreki (noun m.): storm-driver
notes
[2] élreki (m.) ‘storm-driver’: The heiti is attested in skaldic poetry from the C12th-13th (e.g. ESk Lv 6/3II). See also Note to Þul Elds 1/3-4.
blær ‘airstream’
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1. blær (noun m.; °dat. -): breeze
gustr ‘gust’
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gustr (noun m.): gust
rota ‘rainstorm’
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rota (noun f.; °-u): rainstorm, roaring
notes
[5] rota (f.) ‘rainstorm’: In poetry, the word otherwise occurs only as a part of the cpd rotuveðr ‘roaring rainstorm’ (Ív Sig 15/2II).
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[6] ríð (f.) ‘storm’: The same as hríð (so 744ˣ, ‘hri[…]’ B and hríð (‘Hryd’) also in RE 1665). The dropping of initial h- is a feature typical of Norwegian mss (see Note to ll. 5-6 above).
myrkvi ‘darkness’
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myrkvi (noun m.; °-a; -ar): [darkness]
[6] myrkvi: ‘mo᷎rk[…]’ B, ‘mo᷎rkuí’ 744ˣ
fok ‘snow-drift’
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fok (noun n.): stuff tossed by the wind
mugga ‘mugginess’
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2. mugga (noun f.; °-u): [mugginess]
[7] mugga: ‘mu[…]’ B, mugga 744ˣ
notes
[7] mugga (f.) ‘mugginess’: This word does not otherwise occur in poetry.
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[8] Kári: Lit. ‘gust of wind’. This is one of the three sons of the giant Fornjótr and the personification of the wind (cf. Flat 1860-8, I, 21; see also ÍO: kári and SnE 1998, I, 39/13-15, 183 n., as well as Notes to Þul Jǫtna I 3/5, Þul Elds 1/3-4 and Sveinn Norðrdr 2/2). The heiti does not occur in skaldic poetry, but it appears as a term for ‘wind’ in the rímur (Finnur Jónsson 1926-8: kári).
hregg ‘hailstorm’
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hregg (noun n.): storm
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The following heiti are also given in A(14v) (SnE 1848-87, II, 459): vǫnsuðr m. ‘wanderer’ (l. 1), élreki m. ‘storm-driver’ (l. 2), blær m. ‘airstream’ (l. 3), þoka f. ‘mist’ (l. 4) and mugga f. ‘mugginess’ (l. 7). — [5-6]: Ms. B has a slightly different version of these two lines (normalised from 744ˣ): hregg, úr, rota | hríð, myrkvi, él ‘hailstorm, drizzle, rainstorm, storm, darkness, hail’. The B variant must stem from an attempt to correct what was perceived to be imperfect alliteration (on r- : hr-; see Note to l. 6 below), but in this version hregg is given twice (also in l. 8).
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