thulan.
/ˈθʊlə/ A metrical list of names or poetic synonyms assembled in categories (originally for oral recitation) to preserve traditional knowledge.
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1936 K. Malone Widsith 1 Three name-lists (and one fragment of such a list), to which I will refer by the technical term thula, taken from the Icelandic.
1937 K. Malone in Angl. Beibl. XLVIII. 221 In an old thula-fragment quoted in the Icelandic Hervararsaga we are told that a certain Kíarr ruled the Valir.
1963 A. Brown & P. G. Foote Early Eng. & Norse Stud. 113 It is undoubtedly because of these lists of names that the poem is called a þula.
1974 Eng. Stud. 55 507 The first and third thulas are..parallel in introducing kings uninterruptedly.
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