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.