Aegir daughters
The Nine Daughters of Ægir are in Norse mythology the daughters of the sea goddess Rán and sea giant Aegir .
Snorris prose Edda - the book Skáldskaparmál
The names of the nine Egir daughters from the Skáldskaparmál are: Himinglæva (Himingläfa), Dúfa (Dusa), Blóðughadda (Blödughadda), Hefring (Heffrig), Uðr (Udor) or Unn, Hrönn (Raun), Bylgja (Dröbna), Dröböf ) and Kólga . Other names appear on various skalds ; So they were just as little canonized as with the Valkyries , in principle any word for “wave” could be used as a name. They represent personifications of the ocean waves and together gave birth to Heimdall “on the edge of the earth” .
The meaning of the individual names:
- Himinglæva - the one through which one can see the sky clearly (reference to the transparency of the water),
- Dúfa - the high,
- Blóðughadda - the blood-haired (reference to the red foam),
- Hefring (or Hevring) - the rising one,
- Uðr (or Unn) - the foaming one,
- Hrönn - the flowing one,
- Bylgja - the surging one,
- Dröfn - the foam stained,
- Kólga - the cooling one.
Other names from the dial seal
Other names are:
- Angeyja - the adversary,
- Atla - the terrible,
- Eistla - the rapidly storming one,
- Eyrgjafa - the sand donor,
- Gjalp - the end of the shower,
- Greip - the clawing one,
- Jarnsaxa - the cutting cold,
- Imd - the hazy,
- Ulfrun - the wolf fish .
literature
- Faulkes, Anthony (translation, 1987). Edda (Snorri Sturluson). Everyman, ISBN 0-460-87616-3 .
- Lindow, John (2001). Norse Mythology. Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-515382-0 .
- Larrington, Carolyne (translation, 1996). The Poetic Edda. Oxford World's Classics, ISBN 0-19-283946-2 .
- Völsungakviða in forna (Helgakviða Hundingsbana II) at "Norrøne Tekster og Kvad", Norway.
- Rudolf Simek , Hermann Pálsson : Lexicon of Old Norse Literature (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 490). Kröner, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-520-49001-3 .
- Rudolf Simek: Lexicon of Germanic Mythology (= Kröner's pocket edition. Volume 368). 3rd, completely revised edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-520-36803-X .
- Arnulf Krause: The Edda of Snorri Sturluson, selected, translated and commented. Stuttgart 1997.
Individual evidence
- ^ The Edda of Snorri Sturluson, selected, translated and commented by Arnulf Krause, Stuttgart, 1997
- ^ Faulkes, Anthony (translation, 1987). Edda (Snorri Sturluson). Everyman, ISBN 0-460-87616-3