Þul Ara 1III
Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Ara 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. 950.
Ǫrn ‘Eagle’
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1. ǫrn (noun m.; °arnar, dat. erni; ernir, acc. ǫrnu): eagle
[1] Ǫrn: ‘[…]vrn’ B, ‘Avrn’ 744ˣ
gall ‘shrill’
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2. gjallr (adj.): resounding < gallópnir (noun m.)
ópnir ‘crier’
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ópnir (noun m.): [crier, eagle] < gallópnir (noun m.)
[1] ‑ópnir: ‑ofnir A, B
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
andhrímnir ‘counter-screamer’
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Andhrímnir (noun m.): [counter-screamer]
[2] andhrímnir: ‘annd himnir’ B
Hræsvelgr ‘Hræsvelgr’
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Hræsvelgr (noun m.): Hræsvelgr
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
hreggskornir ‘storm-cleaver’
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hreggskornir (noun m.): storm-cleaver
kinnarr ‘one with distinctive cheeks’
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kinnarr (noun m.): one with distinctive cheeks
[5] kinnarr: so B, ‘kinnarr’ or ‘kumarr’ A
notes
[5] kinnarr (m.) ‘one with distinctive cheeks’: So B (and possibly A). A hap. leg. and an obscure word. The heiti may be interpreted either as a derivative from kinn f. ‘cheek’ and thus allude to the appearance of the bird (cf. skolkinni ‘dark-cheeked one’, Þul Vargs 1/10) or as a phonetic variant of ginnarr m. ‘deceiver’ (cf. AEW: kinnarr), listed among heiti for ‘eagle’ in Skm (SnE 1998, I, 92, II, 288). The latter word occurs in several þulur (Þul Óðins 1/8, Þul Dverga 4/5 and Þul Hauks 1/5).
ari ‘eagle’
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1. ari (noun m.; °-a; -ar): eagle
blind ‘blind forest’
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blindr (adj.; °compar. -ari): blind < blindviðnir (noun m.)
viðnir ‘dweller’
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viðnir (noun m.): forest-dweller < blindviðnir (noun m.)
[6] ‑viðnir: ‑vitnir B
arnkell ‘old eagle’
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Arnkell (noun m.): [old eagle]
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[7] arnkell (m.) ‘old eagle’: A hap. leg. The word is possibly derived from *arn‑kall < *arnkarl, ‘old eagle’, whose second element is the same word as karl m. ‘old man’ (so Lie 1982, 345; cf. also the next heiti). The parallelism of this heiti and the m. pers. n. Arnkell (< Arnketill) must be accounted for by homonymy, unless the eagle-name was taken from a now lost story.
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[7] gemlir (m.) ‘old one’: This poetic term for ‘eagle’, originally perhaps referring to a one-year-old bird, is derived from the same root as the adj. gamall ‘old’, but with an -ila suffix (cf. gemla f. ‘one-year-old sheep’ < *gamilōn and gemlingr ‘one-year-old wether’). See also Þjóð Haustl 2/3 and Note there. The variant gelmir in B means ‘noise-maker’ (cf. the latter word as a second element in giant-names; see Þul Jǫtna I 2/7 and Note).
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
aquila ‘aquila’
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Aquila: [aquila]
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