Þul Óðins 5III/4 — Þriði ‘Þriði’
Hroptr, Herblindi ok Herjafǫðr,
Hvatmóðr, Hléfreyr, Hveðrungr, Þriði,
Gǫllungr, Bileygr ok Geirǫlnir,
Váfuðr, Valfǫðr, Vingnir, Rǫgnir.
Hroptr, Herblindi ok Herjafǫðr, Hvatmóðr, Hléfreyr, Hveðrungr, Þriði, Gǫllungr, Bileygr ok Geirǫlnir, Váfuðr, Valfǫðr, Vingnir, Rǫgnir.
Hroptr, Herblindi and Herjafǫðr, Hvatmóðr, Hléfreyr, Hveðrungr, Þriði, Gǫllungr, Bileygr and Geirǫlnir, Váfuðr, Valfǫðr, Vingnir, Rǫgnir.
notes
[4] Þriði: Lit. ‘the third’. According to Snorri, this was the third of the three kings, Hár, Jafnhár and Þriði, the informants of Gylfi in Gylf, and the one occupying the highest throne (SnE 2005, 8). This Óðinn-heiti is frequently used in kennings and is mentioned in Grí 46/4. In Þáttr Hálfdanar svarta, the name is explained as originating from a confusion with the Christian Trinity (Flat 1860-8, I, 564): Þride af þui at þeir … hǫfðu þa spurnn af þrenningunne ok sneru þui j uillu ‘Third because by then they … had heard of the Trinity and altered it falsely’. Grimm (1875-8, I, 134 n. 3, III, 61) compares this name to the name of Zeus, Τρίτος, and interprets it as the third name in the trilogy Búri, Burr, Óðinn, just as Zeus is the third in the trilogy Uranos, Kronos, Zevs (cf. Falk 1924, 30).