thulr

English

Etymology

See Old Norse þulr.

Noun

thulr (plural thulir)

  1. Alternative form of thyle
    • 1902, Pierre D. Chantepie de la Saussaye, The Religion of the Teutons, volume 2, page 190:
      Such a thulr was Loddfafnir, whose sayings constitute one of the parts of Hávamál. The thulir are mentioned only three times in the songs of the Edda.
    • 1993, Helene Carol Weldt-Basson, Augusto Roa Bastos's I the Supreme: A Dialogic Perspective, page 204:
      They spread around the year 100 [sic]: time in which the thulir or anonymous repeating rhapsodists were dispossessed by the skalds, poets of personal intention.
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