Þul Óðins 5III/5 — eygr ‘eygr’
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.
readings
[5] ‑eygr: ‘‑[…]ygr’ B, ‘‑eýgr’ 744ˣ
notes
[5] Bileygr: Lit. ‘one with unsteady eyes’, i.e. ‘weak-sighted’ (according to CVC, bil in poetic compounds means ‘failure, fear, giving way’). The second element is the adj. eygr ‘with eyes of a certain kind’. This name makes a pair with Báleygr ‘fiery-eyed one’ (st. 6/3 below). Cf. the two brothers Bolwisus and Bilwisus (a synonym of Bileygr) in Saxo (Saxo 2005, I, 7, 7, 11, pp. 472-3). These were King Sigar’s counsellors, one good and one evil, and they have been regarded as two different representations of Óðinn. Óðinn appears among humans as one-eyed (einsýnn) and weak-sighted (augdapr), but as fiery-eyed when in the god’s shape (Falk 1924, 4). Other than in the present þula, the name Bileygr occurs only in Grí 47/4.