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Þul Þorgþ I 2III/1 — Vigg ‘Vigg’

Vigg ok Stúfr         vas með Skævaði,
        Þegn knátti Blakkr bera;
Silfrtoppr ok Sinir,         svá heyrðak Fáks of getit,
        Gullfaxi ok Jór með goðum.

Vigg ok Stúfr vas með Skævaði, Blakkr knátti bera Þegn; Silfrtoppr ok Sinir, svá heyrðak Fáks of getit, Gullfaxi ok Jór með goðum.

Vigg and Stúfr were with Skævaðr, Blakkr carried Þegn; Silfrtoppr and Sinir, then I heard Fákr mentioned, Gullfaxi and Jór with the gods.

readings

[1] Vigg: vingr U, Vig papp10ˣ, 2368ˣ, 743ˣ

notes

[1] Vigg: Vigg is not attested as a proper name elsewhere, but it is frequently used in poetry as a common noun (‘horse, steed’; cf. OE wicg, OS wigg ‘horse’). In Skj B the name is given as Viggr (m.), which probably is a later form (see AEW: vigg). See also Þul Hesta, where this heiti appears twice, as vigg (st. 2/7) and as viggr (st. 4/7). The latter is an emended form and the ms. readings can be normalised as vigr/vígr (see Note to Þul Hesta 4/7). Because the form Vigg n. is not really an appropriate name for a horse, Kock (NN §2157B) suggests the reading Vígr m. ‘warlike one’ or ‘swift one’ (from the adj. vígr ‘warlike, able to fight’), but this has no support in the mss (the variant reading vingr, which is found only in U, is likely to be a scribal error). ‘Vig’ in the LaufE mss (<i> and not <í>) cannot be construed as an Old Norse word and is of no help here.

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