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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Þul Ásynja 2III/5 — Syn ‘Syn’

Hlín ok Nanna,         Hnoss, Rindr ok Sjǫfn,
Sól ok Sága,         Sigyn ok Vǫr;
þá es Vár, ok Syn         verðr at nefna,
en Þrúðr ok Rán         þeim næst talið.

Hlín ok Nanna, Hnoss, Rindr ok Sjǫfn, Sól ok Sága, Sigyn ok Vǫr; þá es Vár, ok verðr at nefna Syn, en Þrúðr ok Rán talið næst þeim.

Hlín and Nanna, Hnoss, Rindr and Sjǫfn, Sól and Sága, Sigyn and Vǫr; then there is Vár, and Syn must be named, and Þrúðr and Rán [are] listed next to them.

readings

[5] Syn: ‘s[…]’ B, ‘syn744ˣ

notes

[5] Syn: The name of this Ásynja is also given next to Vár and Vǫr (see ll. 4, 5) in Gylf (SnE 2005, 30), where it is said that she is appointed as a defender at assemblies in cases which she wishes to refute (cf. the weak verb synja ‘deny’ used in legal phrases; CVC: synja). Hence Syn is presented as a goddess of lawsuits, and her name means ‘denial’. She is not mentioned in any Old Norse source other than Gylf and in kennings for ‘woman’.

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