Þórálfr (-valdr) — ÞórálfrIII
skaldsVol. 3, 467 — — ed. Diana Whaley
Poetry
Biography
Nothing is known of this skald (Þórálfr) and his poetry beyond the fact the
helmingr below is cited in
SnE (
Skm) amidst citations mainly from well-known tenth-century skalds. The name of the skald is given as ‘þoralfr’ in W and B, and since these two mss are considered not closely related this makes this form marginally the best supported. Ms.
Tˣ has ‘þorolfr’, as does R, though a patch of damage in R obscures the final letters, ‘þorol[…]’. The form ‘þorvalldr’ in U could be influenced by a citation from
Þorvaldr blǫnduskáld five lines later. The name is printed in
Skj as ‘
Þórálfr (-valdr)’ but in
LP (p. xvi) as ‘Þórolfr (-alfr, ‑valdr)’.
References
- Bibliography
- LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
- Internal references
- Edith Marold 2017, ‘Snorra Edda (Prologue, Gylfaginning, Skáldskaparmál)’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols [check printed volume for citation].
- (forthcoming), ‘ Snorri Sturluson, Skáldskaparmál’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=112> (accessed 21 May 2024)
other information
Þórálfr (-valdr) (Þórálfr)
11th century
Skj AI, 418; BI, 388
volume 3
main editor: Diana Whaley