Karmic Acumen
The long-suffering one
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Besides what I said right after that point? Specifically the part about what fenrisulfr means? I did preface the whole post with a link to the database of scholarship too.
That said, the etymology does seem to have become a bit more contested since I made this thread, but mostly about what fenrir means, not what fenrisulfr means.
The video below mentions the 'fenrisulfr' most likely translations in this video. He's hesitant to rule categorically because apparently 'Fenrir's' etymology is more contested than I thought or at least it has become so now). But he argues this on account of 'fenrir' with an -ir' having an unknown etymology, while fenrisulfr has an s. In any case, the wolf's most likely identity is Garm, and whatever 'fenri-' means in 'fenrisulfr' is like 'Yggdrasil askr' - a kenning for whoever the wolf belongs to / is associated with. Any other arguments seem to be trying to argue from the conclusion backwards.
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I should probably add a bit about Loptr too, now, a bit of linguistic scholarship has circulated on that etymology since ('praised one'). A connection between Loki and Hoenir has been made too. I didn't do it before because Loptr and Hoenir are otherwise names associated with Odin's actual brothers (the ones he killed Ymir with).
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