Tofa (Poetic Edda) Explained

Tófa (Tófu) is the wife of Angantyr and mother of Hervor in Norse mythology. She is mentioned only once in Hervararkviða, part of the Tyrfing Cycle of Old Norse legends.

Tófu is mentioned only once, in the legendary saga of Hervor's Waking of Angantyr:^[1]

The name is a shortened form of Thorfrithr, meaning "beautiful Thor" or "peace of Thor".^{[2] [3] [4]}

See also

• Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks
• J. R. R. Tolkien
• Legendary saga
• Norse saga
• Prose Edda

Other sources

• Henrikson, Alf (1998) Stora mytologiska uppslagsboken (Bokförlaget Forum - Bonnier AB)

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)

Notes and References

1. http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/ietexts/nor/nor-8-X.html The Waking of Angantýr (Early Indo-European Texts, Old Norse by Todd B. Krause and Jonathan Slocum)
2. names-meanings.net: Tofa
3. behindthename.com: Tove, Thorfrithr
4. Teresa Norman, "Tova." A World of Baby Names. New York: Penguin, 2003. 504.