Hfr Hákdr 7III/4 — Ónars ‘of Ónarr’
Rôð lukusk, at sá síðan
snjallráðr konungs spjalli
átti eingadóttur
Ónars viði gróna.
Rôð lukusk, at sá snjallráðr spjalli konungs átti síðan eingadóttur Ónars, gróna viði.
The marriage was concluded, so that shrewdly-advising king’s intimate [RULER] afterward possessed the only daughter of Ónarr <giant> [= Jǫrð (jǫrð ‘earth’)], grown with forest.
readings
[4] Ónars: Ánars Tˣ(27r), Tˣ(38r), ‘anas’ U(29v), annars B
notes
[4] Ónars ‘of Ónarr <giant>’: The name Ónarr (or Ánarr, Annarr, cf. ms readings; see Note to Þul Dverga 3/6, AEW: Ónarr and SnE 2005, 163 for word forms and etymology) appears in several earth-kennings. He is said in Gylf (SnE 2005, 13) to be the second husband of Nótt, perhaps owing to association of his name with the ordinal annarr ‘second’, and father of Jǫrð; a figure of the same name appears in lists of dwarfs (Vsp 11; Þul Dverga 3/6). Frank (2007, 180 n. 23) suggests that Ónarr is an Óðinn-name (although this is not stated in SnE as she implies), as Jǫrð is described in kennings both as Ónarr’s daughter and as his wife, and Gylf (SnE 2005, 13) says of Óðinn, Jǫrðin var dóttir hans ok kona hans ‘The earth was his [Óðinn’s] daughter and his wife’; see the Note to Gsind Hákdr 5/1, 2-3I for an alternative explanation.
kennings
- eingadóttur Ónars, — the only daughter of Ónarr <giant>, [= Jǫrð (jǫrð ‘earth’)]