Þul Tungls 1III/1 — Alskír ‘All-bright one’
Alskír, geisli ok eyglóa,
máni, Miðgarðr, mulinn, tungl ok glámr,
skýðir, œki, skarmr, ártali,
ný, skjalgr, lúna, nið, fengari.
Alskír, geisli ok eyglóa, máni, Miðgarðr, mulinn, tungl ok glámr, skýðir, œki, skarmr, ártali, ný, skjalgr, lúna, nið, fengari.
All-bright one, beam and ever-glow, moon, Miðgarðr, crescent, moon and twilight, hastener, moving one, one dragging forward, year-counter, waxing moon, squinter, lúna, waning moon, fengari.
readings
[1] Alskír: ‘[…]lskirr’ B, ‘Alskirr’ 744ˣ
notes
[1] alskír (f.) ‘all-bright one’: This word is also found in Alv 16/6 and Skm (SnE 1998, I, 85; SnE 1848-87, II, 460), although it is a heiti for ‘sun’ rather than for ‘moon’ in those sources (see Introduction above). Ms. B has ‑skírr m. (adopted in Skj B and Skald; cf. the C(6r) variant alskírr in the list of heiti for ‘sun’ in Skm, SnE 1848-87, II, 592), which is more appropriate as a heiti for ‘moon’ considering máni m. ‘moon’ (l. 3) and the majority of other masculine names listed here. Ms. A has -skír f., however, which also prevails in the heiti list in Skm (cf. alskír R(37r), Tˣ(38v), A(14v)) and might have been the original form of this name. In Alv this heiti (given in the acc.) is listed among the names for ‘sun’ in the languages of various mythical beings (Alv 16/6, NK 126): [kalla] alscír ása synir ‘the sons of the Æsir [call it] all-bright one’.