| 释义 |
thula|ˈθʊlə|
[a. ON. þula.]
A metrical list of names or poetic synonyms assembled in categories (orig. for oral recitation) to preserve traditional knowledge.
1936K. Malone Widsith 1 Three name-lists (and one fragment of such a list), to which I will refer by the technical term thula, taken from the Icelandic. 1937― in Angl. Beibl. XLVIII. 221 In an old thula-fragment quoted in the Icelandic Hervararsaga we are told that a certain Kíarr ruled the Valir. 1963Brown & Foote Early Eng. & Norse Stud. 113 It is undoubtedly because of these lists of names that the poem is called a þula. 1974Eng. Stud. LV. 507 The first and third thulas are..parallel in introducing kings uninterruptedly. |