Tofa (Poetic Edda) Explained

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:^[1]

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'.^{[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.