Þul Hesta 2III
Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Hesta heiti 2’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 936.
Fákr ‘Fákr’
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fákr (noun m.; °; -ar): horse
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[1] Fákr: Lit. ‘swift one’. See Note to Anon Þorgþ I 2/5. Fákr is a common poetic word for ‘horse’.
Léttfeti ‘Léttfeti’
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Léttfeti (noun m.)
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[1] Léttfeti: I.e. ‘light-pacer’. See Note to Anon Þorgþ I 1/3.
Fjǫrsvartnir ‘Fjǫrsvartnir’
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fjǫrsvartnir (noun m.)
[2] Fjǫrsvartnir Valr: ‘valr […] fio᷎rsuartnir’ B, ‘valr fio᷎rsuartnir’ 744ˣ
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[2] Fjǫrsvartnir: Lit. ‘life-darkener’ (m.). One of the mythical horses that pull the Night. According to Skm (SnE 1998, I, 90), Hrímfaxi eða Fjǫrsva<r>tnir draga nóttina ‘Hrímfaxi or Fjǫrsvartnir pull the night’. See also sts 1/1, 3/3, 4 and 4/8 and Notes there. The second element of the cpd is an agent noun from the weak verb sortna ‘darken’ (cf. ModNorw. svartne, ModSwed. svartna ‘darken’). Kock (NN §2157D) suggests that the first element in this cpd (fjǫr-) means ‘breast’ rather than ‘life’, and that the name ought to be interpreted as ‘dark-breast’ (or ‘breast-darkener’). That interpretation, which is based on Ghv 17/8, is tenuous. The heiti does not otherwise occur in skaldic verse.
Valr ‘Valr’
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Valr (noun m.; °; -ir): Valr, ?horse
[2] Fjǫrsvartnir Valr: ‘valr […] fio᷎rsuartnir’ B, ‘valr fio᷎rsuartnir’ 744ˣ
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[2] Valr: See Note to Anon Þorgþ I 1/3.
fengr ‘booty’
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fengr (noun m.; °-jar/-s, dat. -/-i): loot
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[3] fengr (m.) ‘booty’: As a horse-heiti the word is not found elsewhere. See also Fengr in Þul Óðins 2/2 and Note there.
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[3] Falhófnir: Lit. ‘one with pale hoofs’ or, possibly, ‘one with hidden hoofs’. See Note to Anon Þorgþ I 3/4.
fetmóðr ‘pace-tired one’
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fetmóðr (noun m.)
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[4] fetmóðr (m.) ‘pace-tired one’: From fet n. ‘pace, step’ and the adj. móðr ‘tired, weary’. This cpd is otherwise not attested in poetry.
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
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[4] Lungr: Lit. ‘swift one’. See Note to Anon Þorgþ I 1/7. The B variant, hringr ‘ring’, is attested as a heiti for ‘serpent’, ‘ship’ and ‘sword’ but not as a heiti for ‘horse’.
Vakr ‘Vakr’
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1. vakr (noun m.): hawk
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[5] Vakr: Lit. ‘ alert, wakeful, lively one’. See Note to Anon Kálfv 2/4.
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[5] vígglitnir (m.) ‘war-glittering one’: Not otherwise attested as a heiti for horse. Both mss have ‘viglitnir’ and the emendation follows earlier eds (Skj B; Skald; NN §2157E). Cf. glitnir ‘shining one’ (st. 1/3 above) and the boar-heiti valglitnir ‘slaughter-shiner’ (Þul Galtar l. 1).
vindr ‘wind’
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Vindr (noun m.): Vindr
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[6] vindr (m.) ‘wind’: As a horse-heiti, vindr is not found elsewhere. The meaning is perhaps ‘swift as the wind’ (cf. veðr ‘gust’ in the next line). The word is also attested in the þulur as the name of a giant (see Þul Jǫtna I 5/7).
veðr ‘gust’
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2. veðr (noun n.; °-s; -): weather, wind, storm
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[7] veðr (n.) ‘gust’: This word does not occur as a horse-heiti in poetry, but cf. vindr ‘wind’ (l. 6 above).
víðir ‘wide one’
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víðir (noun m.): °pil, piletræ
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[7] víðir (m.) ‘wide one’: Like the poetic term for ‘sea’ (see víðir, Þul Sjóvar 2/2), this word is perhaps derived from the adj. víðr ‘wide’, but the exact meaning is uncertain. It does not occur as a heiti for ‘horse’ other than in the present þula.
vigg ‘steed’
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vigg (noun n.): steed
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[7] vigg ‘steed’: See Note to Anon Þorgþ I 2/1.
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
vegdraupnir ‘way-dripper’
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Vegdraupnir (noun m.)
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[8] vegdraupnir (m.) ‘way-dripper’: An otherwise unattested cpd from vegr m. ‘way’ and a second element related to the strong verb drjúpa ‘drip’. The implied meaning of ‑draupnir as a part of a horse-heiti is unclear, but cf. Draupnir, the name of Óðinn’s magic ring and also of a dwarf (see Þul Dverga 3/4 and Note there).
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