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Þul Dverga 6III/7 — Jaki ‘Jaki’

Hljóðolfr, Kíli,         Hildingr ok Litr,
Ráðspakr, Lofarr,         Reginn ok Ljómi,
Ráðsviðr, Lóinn,         Rekkr ok Eitri,
Jaki, Eggmóinn,         Eikinskjaldi.

Hljóðolfr, Kíli, Hildingr ok Litr, Ráðspakr, Lofarr, Reginn ok Ljómi, Ráðsviðr, Lóinn, Rekkr ok Eitri, Jaki, Eggmóinn, Eikinskjaldi.

Hljóðólfr, Kíli, Hildingr and Litr, Ráðspakr, Lofarr, Reginn and Ljómi, Ráðsviðr, Lóinn, Rekkr and Eitri, Jaki, Eggmóinn, Eikinskjaldi.

readings

[7] Jaki: ‘toki’ B

notes

[7] Jaki: As a dwarf-name, Jaki is attested only in this þula. Gould (1929, 950) interprets the name as ‘ice-floe’ or ‘ice-berg’ (cf. jaki m. ‘piece of ice’; CVC: jaki). The A variant Jaki could be a scribal error, since ms. B has ‘toki’. However, although Tóki is the name of several legendary persons, it never occurs as a dwarf-name in other sources, and, furthermore, the A variant is supported by the LaufE mss which also have Jaki. Finnur Jónsson (LP: Jaki) suggests that the correct reading may be Jari ‘warrior’ (from jara f. ‘battle’), but he retains Jaki in Skj B. The name Jari is attested in the dwarf-stanzas in the Hb version of Vsp (Iari, Eikin skialldi, Hb 1892-6, 189; cf. the second name in l. 8 below). The Hb reading may be supported by the evidence from later poetry: ÍO gives the forms jári and jár m. as heiti for ‘dwarf’ and as a name for Óðinn which occurs in rímur.

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