Þul Fugla 4III
Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Fugla heiti 4’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 955.
Kárn ‘Kárn’
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kárn (noun n.)
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[1] kárn (m. or n.): This bird has not been identified. As an independent word, this heiti does not occur elsewhere, but it is found in compounds; cf. the bird-heiti jaðrakárn ‘whimbrel’ (st. 5/8 below) and the Icelandic river-name Kárnsá (Kornsá), as well as Faroese krákukárn, which is a bird-heiti in a poem about birds, and New Norw. korn, kråkekonn ‘crow’ (see ÍO: kárn).
igða ‘marsh tit’
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igða (noun f.; °; -ur): °lille sangfugl, mejse (cf. NorskOrdb igde)
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[1] igða (f.) ‘marsh tit’: Parus palustris. Igða is not attested in skaldic poetry, but the word appears in the rímur (Finnur Jónsson 1926-8: igða).
kjalarfugl ‘kjalarfugl’
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kjalarfugl (noun m.)
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[1] kjalarfugl (m.): This is an obscure word (see ÍO: kjalarfugl, kjalakan) which is not attested elsewhere. It could be formed from kjǫlr m. ‘keel’ and fugl m. ‘bird’ and is probably not connected with Óðinn’s name Kjalarr (see Þul Óðins 1/5; cf. also óðinshani ‘red-necked phalarope’, st. 2/1 above, and Note to Þul Hrafns 1/6).
kráka ‘crow’
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kráka (noun f.; °-u; -ur): kráka
dúfa ‘dove’
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2. dúfa (noun f.): dove
þrǫstr ‘thrush’
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þrǫstr (noun m.)
þiðurr ‘capercaillie’
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þiðurr (noun m.; °þiðurs; þiðrar): grouse, capercaillie
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[3] þiðurr (m.) ‘capercaillie’: Tetrao urogallus. Also known as ‘wood grouse’.
þerna ‘tern’
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1. þerna (noun f.; °; -ur): tern
þeisti ‘guillemot’
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þeisti (noun m.): °tejst
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[4] þeisti (m.) ‘guillemot’: Also attested as ON þeist f. ‘guillemot’ or ‘sea-pigeon’. Cf. ModIcel. þeista f., ModNorw. teist (Cepphus grylle).
dunna ‘duck’
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dunna (noun f.; °-u)
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[4] dunna (f.) ‘duck’: According to CVC, AEW: dunna, this name refers to a wild duck, ‘mallard’ (Anas boschas or Anas platyrhynchos), but cf. Faroese dunna ‘domestic duck’. The term most likely originates from the colour of the bird, cf. OE dun ‘dull brown, dark-coloured’, OS dun ‘red-brown’ (ÍO: dunna).
trana ‘crane’
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2. trani (noun m.; °-a): crane
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[5] trana (f.) ‘crane’: A later form (the earlier form is trani m.). The latter is found in Þul Orma 2/4 and Þul Sverða 6/4, but it is not recorded in the present þula.
tjaldr ‘oyster-catcher’
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tjaldr (noun m.)
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[5] tjaldr (m.) ‘oyster-catcher’: A wader (Haematopus ostralegus).
titlingr ‘sparrow’
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titlingr (noun m.; °-s; -ar): °spurv
tyrðilmúli ‘razorbill’
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tyrðilmúli (noun m.)
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[6] tyrðilmúli (m.) ‘razorbill’: Lit. ‘droppings-bill’. Alca torda, see st. 2/1. The name is not attested in Modern Icelandic.
lómr ‘loon’
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1. lómr (noun m.): loon
lævirki ‘lark’
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lævirki (noun m.)
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
leðrblaka ‘bat’
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leðrblaka (noun f.)
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Of seventeen heiti listed in this stanza only six (kráka f. ‘crow’, dúfa f. ‘dove’ l. 2, þiðurr m. ‘capercaillie’, þerna f. ‘tern’ l. 3, trana f. ‘crane’ l. 5 and lómr m. ‘loon’ l. 7) occur in poetry.
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