thulr

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A form of thyle — A member of an early medieval Scandinavian or Anglo-Saxon court whose exact function is now unclear, but appears to roughly have been that of an authority on the fields of history and legend, especially their recital and interpretation.

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Meanings

nounthulr (plural thulir)

plural thulir

  1. alternativeAlternative form of thyle.

    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.

    1902, Pierre D. Chantepie de la Saussaye, The Religion of the Teutons, volume 2, page 190
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    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.

    1993, Helene Carol Weldt-Basson, Augusto Roa Bastos's I the Supreme: A Dialogic Perspective, page 204

Origin

See Old Norse þulr.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Chicago

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