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Note to Þul Sækonunga 4III

[7] Ásmundr: So A (and adopted in Finnur Jónsson 1934-5, 296; Skj B; LP: Ásmundr). According to Finnur (LP) this is the famous legendary king Gnóðar-Ásmundr (see Note to Anon Mhkv 8/5 and Introduction to GnóðÁsm). Björn Sigfússon (1934, 134) adopts the R variant Jǫsmundr (a hap. leg.), which he takes as cognate with the names Jǫsurr and Jǫsurmarr, whose origin is not clear. If there is a connection between the first element of the cpd names Jǫs- and New Norw. jase ‘excitement of mind and body’ or ON ǫs f. ‘bustle of a crowd, tumult’ (cf. the reading Ǫsmundr in ), Jǫsmundr possibly means ‘one fighting in a tumult’. Neither Ásmundr nor Jǫsmundr are used in skaldic kennings.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
  3. 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.
  4. Björn Sigfússon. 1934. ‘Names of Sea-Kings (heiti sækonunga)’. MP 32, 125-42.
  5. Finnur Jónsson. 1934-5. ‘Þulur: Søkonge- og jættenavneremserne’. APS 9, 289-308.
  6. Internal references
  7. Roberta Frank (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Poems, Málsháttakvæði 8’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1222.
  8. Margaret Clunies Ross 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Gnóðar-Ásmundar drápa’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 626. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1011> (accessed 7 May 2024)

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