Móinn, hestr, fjǫtri, Móðnir, róni,
alsvartr, apli, askr, malfeti,
Blóðhófr, Hamskarpr, brúnn, Hófvarpnir,
viggr, Skinfaxi, virfill, Hrímfaxi.
Móinn, hestr, fjǫtri, Móðnir, róni, alsvartr, apli, askr, malfeti, Blóðhófr, Hamskarpr, brúnn, Hófvarpnir, viggr, Skinfaxi, virfill, Hrímfaxi.
Brown one, horse, fettered one, Móðnir, gelding, all-black one, foal, ash-tree, gravel-pacer, Blóðhófr, Hamskarpr, black one, Hófvarpnir, steed, Skinfaxi, virfill, Hrímfaxi.
[1] móinn (m.) ‘brown one’: The word is not found elsewhere as a horse-heiti. It could be derived from the adj. mór ‘brown’ (so LP: móinn; cf. Mór in st. 3/8 and see Note to Anon Þorgþ I 1/7). Alternatively, móinn has been derived from mór m. ‘moor, heath’ (hence, lit. ‘one that belongs to the heath’; so AEW: Móinn). If the latter explanation is correct, this horse-heiti may well originally be a term for ‘serpent’, transferred from a list of serpent-heiti (cf. Þul Orma 4/7 and Note there).