Þul Vargs 1III/10 — skol ‘dark’
Þul Vargs 1IIIVargr, ulfr, Geri, vitnir ok hninnir, grádýri,
Hati, Hróðvitnir ok heiðingi,
Freki ok viðnir, Fenrir, hlébarðr,
Goti, gildr, glammi, gylðir, ímarr,
ímr ok egðir ok skolkinni.
Vargr, ulfr, Geri, vitnir ok hninnir, grádýri, Hati, Hróðvitnir ok heiðingi, Freki ok viðnir, Fenrir, hlébarðr, Goti, gildr, glammi, gylðir, ímarr, ímr ok egðir ok skolkinni.
Wolf, he-wolf, Geri, watcher and hninnir, grey-beast, Hati, Hróðvitnir and heath-dweller, Freki and forest-dweller, Fenrir, hlébarðr, Goti, worthy one, noisy one, howler, combatant, dusky one and edged one and dark-cheeked one.
readings
[10] skol‑: so A, skǫll‑ R, Tˣ, C, ‘skoll‑’ B
notes
[10] skolkinni (m.) ‘dark-cheeked one’: A hap. leg. The meaning of skol- is most likely ‘dark’ (AEW: skólkinni; Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon 1950, 123); cf. the adjectives skolbeinn ‘brown-legged’ and skolbrúnn ‘swarthy’. The second element, ‑kinni, is perhaps derived from kinn n. ‘cheek’ (see Notes to Freki, l. 5 above and Þul Ara l. 5). The first element is (normalised) skǫll- in R, Tˣ, C and it is also possible that skolkinni is not one, but two names, i.e. Skoll, or Skǫll, a mythical wolf (see Note to l. 2) and kinni (see Note to l. 5). The lack of alliteration in l. 10 suggests that this heiti was originally preceded by some other wolf-name with an initial vowel.