Dúrnir
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Dúrnir was a dwarf who appears in three Old Norse skaldic poems, which suggests that he once was a well-known dwarf in Norse mythology.
The most notable poem is Ynglingatal:
He also appears in a list of Dwarves in the anonymous Dverga heiti:
- Alþjófr, austri,
- aurvangr ok dúfr,
- ái, andvari,
- ónn ok draupnir,
- dori ok dagfinnr,
- dulinn ok ónarr,
- alfr ok dellingr,
- óinn ok durnir.[5]
The third poem is found in Laufás-Edda:
- Kveða skal hróðr fyr hríðar
- hræ-blakks viðum sævar,
- drykkr var Durnis rekkum
- døkkr, ljósara nøkkvi.[6]
Snorri also includes Dúrnir in a list of giants in the Skáldskaparmál section of his Prose Edda (Faulkes translation, p.157).
[edit] Notes
- ^ Ynglinga saga at Norrøne Tekster og Kvad
- ^ A second online presentation of Ynglingatal
- ^ Laing's translation at the Internet Sacred Text Archive
- ^ Laing's translation at Northvegr
- ^ Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages
- ^ At Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages
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