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Þul Jǫtna II 1III/5 — Víðgrípr ‘Víðgrípr’

Enn eru eptir         jǫtna heiti:
Eimgeitir, Verr,         Ímr, Hringvǫlnir,
Viddi, Víðgrípr,         Vandill, Gyllir,
Grímnir, Glaumarr,         Glámr, Sámendill,
Vǫrnir, Harðgreipr         ok Vagnhǫfði.

Enn eru eptir heiti jǫtna: Eimgeitir, Verr, Ímr, Hringvǫlnir, Viddi, Víðgrípr, Vandill, Gyllir, Grímnir, Glaumarr, Glámr, Sámendill, Vǫrnir, Harðgreipr ok Vagnhǫfði.

Still there are names of giants to come: Eimgeitir, Verr, Ímr, Hringvǫlnir, Viddi, Víðgrípr, Vandill, Gyllir, Grímnir, Glaumarr, Glámr, Sámendill, Vǫrnir, Harðgreipr and Vagnhǫfði.

readings

[5] Víðgrípr: so A, 744ˣ, vingrípr R, umgrípr , vindgrípr C, ‘v[…]g[…]pr’ B

notes

[5] Víðgrípr: Lit. ‘wide-grasper’ (from the adj. víðr ‘wide’ and the agent noun grípr m. ‘grasper, gripper’ from the strong verb grípa ‘grasp, grip’). This variant, which is recorded in A and 744ˣ (and hence, likely in B), appears to be correct (see Finnur Jónsson 1934-5, 298). The other mss have vin- (R), vind- (C), um- (). This giant is not mentioned in other sources, but in Ǫrvar-Odds saga (FSN II, 282, 284-6), Víðgrípr is the name of King Álfr’s son. According to the saga, King Álfr, his son and his wife were heathen sorcerers living in the eastern region of Bjálkaland.

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