Tofa (Poetic Edda)
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Tófa (Tófu) is the wife of Angantyr and mother of Hervor in Norse Mythology. She is mentioned in Hervararkviða, a poem from the Poetic Edda, part of the Tyrfing Cycle of Old Norse legends.
In the Poetic Edda
Tófu is mentioned only once, in the legendary saga of Hervor's Waking of Angantyr: [1]
Vaki, Angantýr! || vekr þik Hervǫr, |
Etymology
The name Tófa/Tófu is a shortened form of Thorfrithr, meaning "beautiful Thor" or "peace of Thor."[2][3][4]
See also
References
- ^ The Waking of Angantýr (Early Indo-European Texts, Old Norse by Todd B. Krause and Jonathan Slocum)
- ^ names-meanings.net: Tofa
- ^ behindthename.com: Tove, Thorfrithr
- ^ Teresa Norman, "Tova." A World of Baby Names. New York: Penguin, 2003. 504.
Other Sources
- Henriksson, Alf (1998) Stora mytologiska uppslagsboken (Bokförlaget Forum - Bonnier AB) ISBN 978-9137113463
Related Reading
- Vigfússon, Gudbranðour (with F. York Powell) (1883) Corpus Poeticum Boreale: The Poetry of the Old Northern Tongue, from the Earliest Times to the Thirteenth Century, Volume 1, Eddic Poetry (Oxford: Clarendon Press)