Epic Word: O.-Icel. hǫll ‘hall, dwelling’ in the Elder Edda

Multicomponent analysis of O.-Icel. hǫll ‘hall, dwelling’ in the Scandinavian epic – “The Elder Edda&8j1; – is intended to explain the principles of distribution of this lexeme and its derivatives. Statistical methods are used, taking into account the frequency of use, grammatical, describing its case paradigm, morphological, determining the types of combination of components of the composite in derivatives, syntactic, establishing relevant functions, etymological, capable of actualization in certain situations, mythological, characterizing the attraction to certain mythologems, motifs, plots or myths, poetic (alliterations, sound repetitions, anagrams) and extralinguistic, indicating a connection with the “world of things”. It can be stated that O.-isl. hǫll was used to nominate the underworld (O.-Icel.val-hǫll ‘the hall of the slain’), intended for those who died on the battlefield, and then, after association with the sky, where the dwellings of the gods, originally localized on earth, were transferred, acquired features of an ideal space, paradise, the symbol of which was the banquet hall.

Old Icelandic language, epic, “Elder Eddaˮ, mythopoetic model of the world, context, semantics, grammar, morphology, syntax, etymology, semantic reconstruction