[4] Þrungva: The mss have ‘þrungra’ (Tˣ) and ‘þungra’ (A, B and C). The latter form may have been confused with the Old Norse adj. þungr ‘heavy, weighty’. Although Þungra occurs twice in skaldic poetry of the C12th and C14th, and in both instances in kennings for ‘woman’ (in Anon Pl 50/3VII and EGils Guðkv 35/3IV, which contain other heiti known only from the þulur), Finnur Jónsson believes that it is a corrupt form of Þrungva (Skj B; LP: þungra; see also SnE 1998, II, 526). Kock retains the reading Þungra in Skald (see also NN §1256).
References
- Bibliography
- Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- 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.
- SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Internal references
- Jonna Louis-Jensen and Tarrin Wills (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Plácitusdrápa 50’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 212-13.
- Not published: do not cite (EGils Guðkv 35IV)