Tófa is the wife of Angantyr and mother of Hervor in Norse mythology. She is mentioned only once in Hervararkviða, part of Heiðreks saga, otherwise known as the Tyrfing Cycle of Old Norse legends.
Appearance in Heiðreks saga
Tófu is mentioned only once, in the legendary saga of Hervor's Waking of Angantyr:
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Vaki, Angantýr! || vekr þik Hervǫr, |
Awaken, Angantyr! It is Hervor who awakens you, |
The name is thought to be a shortened form of Þorfríðr, whose first element is the deity name Thor and whose second is an Old Norse word meaning 'beautiful'.
See also
References
- The Waking of Angantýr (Early Indo-European Texts, Old Norse by Todd B. Krause and Jonathan Slocum)
- names-meanings.net: Tofa Archived 2010-06-20 at the Wayback Machine
- behindthename.com: Tove, Thorfrithr
- Teresa Norman, "Tova." A World of Baby Names. New York: Penguin, 2003. 504.
Other sources
- Henrikson, 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)
