herfjöturr
nafnorðkarlkynher-fjöturr
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, (Gl.); they were the messengers of Odin, by whom the warriors were doomed to death (kjósa val); the passages referring to this lore are viii. 170, ii. 233, Ísl. ii. 104 twice ():—a similar belief appears in the Greek, see xxii. 297 , Iliad xiii. 358–360, xxii. 5
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- m.karlkyn (e. masculine)
- sqq.following.
- EddaEdda. (C. I.)
- Fms.Fornmanna sögur. (E. I.)
- Sturl.Sturlunga saga. (D. I.)
- Harð. S.Harðar saga. (D. II.)
- Od.Odysseifs-kvæði, prose, 1829.