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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Þul Sækonunga 1III/8 — Gylfi ‘Gylfi’

Atli, Fróði,         Áli, Glammi,
Beiti, Áti         ok Beimuni,
Auðmundr, Guðmundr,         Atall ok Gestill,
Geitir, Gauti,         Gylfi, Sveiði.

Atli, Fróði, Áli, Glammi, Beiti, Áti ok Beimuni, Auðmundr, Guðmundr, Atall ok Gestill, Geitir, Gauti, Gylfi, Sveiði.

Atli, Fróði, Áli, Glammi, Beiti, Áti and Beimuni, Auðmundr, Guðmundr, Atall and Gestill, Geitir, Gauti, Gylfi, Sveiði.

readings

[8] Gylfi Sveiði: ‘g[…] s[…]de’ B, ‘gylfir sueide’ 744ˣ

notes

[8] Gylfi: Here a sea-king, the son of Geitir (Flat 1860-8, I, 22; see l. 7 above). The name is frequently used in kennings for ‘sea’ and ‘ship’. Finnur Jónsson (1934-5, 294) connects it with the sea-heiti gjálfr n. ‘swelling waves, surge’, while Björn Sigfússon (1934, 130-1) offers the interpretation ‘he who lives on a raised floor, a chief’ (from gólf n. ‘raised floor’). Cf. the A variant Gylfir in Þul Sea-kings l. 6 (and in ms. 744ˣ of the present stanza).

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