Hallr Þórarinsson breiðmaga — HbreiðmII
skaldsVol. 2, 610-11 — — ed. Judith Jesch
Poetry
Biography
Judith Jesch 2009, ‘(Biography of) Hallr Þórarinsson breiðmaga’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 610-11.
Hallr (Hbreiðm), son of a certain Þórarinn breiðmagi ‘Broad-belly’, is said in
Orkn to have arrived in Orkney on an Icel. ship (
ÍF 34, 182)
. Neither father nor son is mentioned elsewhere, though it has been speculated that they were related to Ari Þorgilsson’s foster-father Hallr Þórarinsson of Haukadalur, or that they belonged to the Síðumenn, one of whom was called breiðmagi, and who were related to the jarls of Orkney (
Hl 1941, 5, 143). Soon after this episode,
Orkn says that Hallr and Rǫgnvaldr composed
Háttalykill (
RvHbreiðm HlIII) together (
ÍF 34, 185).
References
- Bibliography
- ÍF = Íslenzk fornrit.
- ÍF 34 = Orkneyinga saga. Ed. Finnbogi Guðmundsson. 1965.
- Hl 1941 = Jón Helgason and Anne Holtsmark, eds. 1941. Háttalykill enn forni. BA 1. Copenhagen: Munksgaard.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Orkneyinga saga’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=47> (accessed 3 May 2024)
- Kari Ellen Gade 2017, ‘ Rǫgnvaldr jarl and Hallr Þórarinsson, Háttalykill’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1001. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1347> (accessed 3 May 2024)
other information
Hallr Þórarinsson breiðmaga (Hbreiðm)
12th century
Skj AI, 528; BI, 508-9
volume 2
main editor: Judith Jesch