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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Þul Galtar 1III/1 — valglitnir ‘slaughter-glittering one’

Gǫltr, valglitnir,         gríss ok hrímnir,
svíntarr, runi,         Sæhrímnir, bǫrgr,
rái, valbassi,         røðr, drittroði,
þrór, vigrir, skunpr,         þróndr, Vaningi.

Gǫltr, valglitnir, gríss ok hrímnir, svíntarr, runi, Sæhrímnir, bǫrgr, rái, valbassi, røðr, drittroði, þrór, vigrir, skunpr, þróndr, Vaningi.

Boar, slaughter-glittering one, pig and sooty one, svíntarr, hog, Sæhrímnir, castrated boar, rái, slaughter-bear, røðr, dirt-stepper, thriver, vigrir, skunpr, thriving one, Vanr-born one.

readings

[1] valglitnir: ‘va[…]glitnir’ C, ‘valg[…]nir’ B, valglitnir 744ˣ

notes

[1] valglitnir (m.) ‘slaughter-glittering one’: An otherwise unattested cpd, most likely from valr m. ‘slain in battle’ and glitnir m. ‘shining one, glittering one’ (cf. glitnir ‘shining one’ and vígglitnir ‘war-glittering one’, Þul Hesta 1/3 and 2/5). Alternatively, the word could mean ‘pleasant-shiner’ (so SnE 1998, II, 420), in which the first element is either val- ‘selected, costly’ (from val n. ‘choice’) or val- (from valir ‘Welsh’, used in poetic compounds to designate luxurious foreign objects).

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