As the fowl sweeps over our heads, we recall, while standing in the
snow, that men here are also called Snaer, snow, and women Mjoll
(hooked-o) and Drifa(long-i), snow, which we compare to Isi,
etc.. 'What was that?', we ask. 'That was a bird', answers Dali. 'My
folk are called after it, and all kinds of other things in the wood.
Fogl, Fakr(long-a), Vedr(dh), Ulfr, Ormr, Oksi, Otr, Refr, Kvigr(long-
i), Gaupi, Hveplr, Kalfr, Goltr(hooked-o), Griss(long-i), Geiti, Hunn
(long-u), Hundr, Hreinn, Hjortr(hooked-o), Hafr, Hamall, Nadr(dh),
Jofurr(hooked-o), Igull(long-i), Bokkr, Bjorr(long-o), Bjorn(hooked-
o), Musi(long-u), Mordr(hooked-o), Lambi. About -o- in Fogl and
Bokkr, note that Old West Norse prefers a-mutation, and that forms
with -u- are analogical. Some of these are attested weak when
otherwise strong: Fogli, Ulfi, Ormi, Galti, Hundi, Jafri, Bjarni. All
from West Norse sources but Fakr, which I have from Proto-Norse Fakaz
(long-a, horse), Vedr (from a Swedish inscription Vadr, where the -r
occurs in the oblique, and cannot therefore be Vadr, Wader - see
activities-names), Goltr (which I have reconstructed from the
attested weal Galti), Gaupi (attested as a sea-king name, but which I
relate to fem. gaupa, a Scandinavian mountain-cat), Geiti (which I
have from mideaval sources confirmed by other Germanic langauges and
backed up by Geitir, about which later), Jofurr (Swedish inscriptions
along with Jafri), Bokkr (mideaval sources), and Musi (which I
reconstructed from the descendant-name Mysingr, long-y, about which
more later). And the feminines: *Rifja Reconstructed from the ON word
for a female fox, not preserved but through New Norwegian rivje,
female fox, showing correct i-mutation, but beside analogical reve),
*Kora (long-o, which is my reconstruction from the Swedish
inscription kuru, oblique feminine, meaning Cow, or rather of or like
the Cow - for -o- here compare the Iceland farm name Koreksstadir,
Cowrich's steads, where we see the suffix -rekr, rich. in its lost
original use, beside Faereksstadir, a Norwegian farm name, where the
man is Faer-rich, rich in sheep), Jora(long o, attested feminine of
Jofurr), Ylfa (from late Swedish, but showing correct i-mutation from
PN *wulfija, though technically *Ylgr in ON), Yr(long-y, attested
feminine, the ourox-cow), *Yrm(s)la (reconstructed from the ON word
for female snake), etc. - we have many missing women's names here,
and likely some masculines as well. One is *Elgr, elk, which occurs
as a nickname in a Norwegian inscription, but was likely also a
personal name. A big animal and found in Scandinavia. Also, some
other horse-names are likely lost here. Before going deeper into
these missing names, we recall that Lokarr had an Oksi standing in
his yard at home, eating gras, and a few of the other animals Dali
tells us that his folk are named after. -Konrad