Dúrnir
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:
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A more literal translation:
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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).
It is possible that the name Durnir is an emendation (or a case variety) of Durinn, mentioned as the father of dvarfs in Dvergatal. Both names mean door, or door-warden. The names Durinn og Durnir do not appear in the same texts. The Norwegian translation of Ynglinga Saga from 1900 uses the name of Durinn instead of Durnir.
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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