Þul Óðins 3III/3 — Gǫndlir ‘Gǫndlir’
Grímr, Gapþrosnir, Gangráðr, Svipall,
Glapsviðr, Gǫndlir ok Gangleri,
Herteitr, Hárbarðr ok Hroptatýr,
Geiguðr, Gǫllnir ok Geirlǫðnir.
Grímr, Gapþrosnir, Gangráðr, Svipall, Glapsviðr, Gǫndlir ok Gangleri, Herteitr, Hárbarðr ok Hroptatýr, Geiguðr, Gǫllnir ok Geirlǫðnir.
Grímr, Gapþrosnir, Gangráðr, Svipall, Glapsviðr, Gǫndlir and Gangleri, Herteitr, Hárbarðr and Hroptatýr, Geiguðr, Gǫllnir and Geirlǫðnir.
readings
[3] Gǫndlir: ‘ganglær’ A, ‘go᷎n[…]er’ B, ‘ge᷎ngler’ 744ˣ
notes
[3] Gǫndlir: So Grí 49/10 and Skj B, possibly also ms. B of the present stanza where the name is partially illegible (‘go᷎n[…]er’), although the 744ˣ variant ‘ge᷎ngler’ suggests an original B reading closer to that of A. The LaufE mss have ‘Gondler’, which can be normalised as either Gǫndlir or Gondlir. The Óðinn-name Gǫnlir is attested in the rímur (Finnur Jónsson 1926-8: gǫnlir). Gangler (so A) is evidently caused by a confusion with the next name, Gangleri. Gǫndlir is either derived from Gǫndul, the name of a valkyrie (Þul Valkyrja 2/1; see also Svipall in l. 2 above) or from gǫndull = gandr m. ‘rod (or staff) used by sorcerers’ (i.e. seiðstafr) or ‘magic object on which valkyries rode in the air’ (Falk 1924, 14). Perhaps the name originally meant ‘magician’.