Her-fjöturr

Significado de la palabra en nórdico antiguo "her-fjöturr" (o her-fjǫturr)

Según el diccionario inglés de nórdico antiguo de Cleasby & Vigfusson:

her-fjöturr (her-fjǫturr)

m. a mythical term, ‘war-fetter:’ a valiant man who in the stress of battle feels himself spell-bound, and unable to stir, was in old lore said to be caught in a ‘war-fetter;’ this was attributed to the weird sisters of battle (the Valkyrias), as is shewn by the fact that one of them was called Herfjöturr, Shackle, Edda (Gl.); they were the messengers of Odin, by whom the warriors were doomed to death (kjósa val); the passages referring to this lore are FmS. viii. 170, Sturl. ii. 233, Ísl. ii. 104 twice (Harð. S.):—a similar belief appears in the Greek, see Od. xxii. 297 sqq., Iliad xiii. 358–360, xxii. 5 sqq.

Ortografía: El libro de Cleasby & Vigfusson utilizó la letra ö para representar la vocal original ǫ del nórdico antiguo. Por lo tanto, her-fjöturr puede escribirse más precisamente como her-fjǫturr.

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