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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Þul Øxna 3III/5 — olgr ‘noise-maker’

Gneisti, Apli         ok gollinhorni,
auðr, kvígr, ǫldungr         ok Arfuni,
griðungr, olgr, gellir,         glymr ok hreiði,
tíðungr, boli,         tarfr, aurgefinn.

Gneisti, Apli ok gollinhorni, auðr, kvígr, ǫldungr ok Arfuni, griðungr, olgr, gellir, glymr ok hreiði, tíðungr, boli, tarfr, aurgefinn.

Spark, Apli and golden-horned one, wealth, young bullock, elder and Arfuni, steer, noise-maker, yeller, roar and hreiði, yearling, bull-calf, bull, dirt-prone one.

readings

[5] olgr: so , A, ǫlgr R, ‘aulldungr ellgr’ C, ‘o[…]gr’ B, olgr 744ˣ

notes

[5] olgr (m.) ‘noise-maker’: As an ox-name olgr is found only in the present þula (see Note to hjǫlluðr ‘roarer’ in st. 2/4). Other than in the present list, the word is recorded in Þul Elds 3/1 (see Note there), Þul Óðins 6/7 and Þul Hauks 2/7.

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