[5] bjór ‘beer’: The speaker is here anticipating drinking beer in Valhǫll. According to Alv 33, the Æsir gods use the word bjórr for what humans refer to as ǫl ‘ale’. If this may be believed, Ragnarr loðbrók is using here the term properly used by the Æsir for the ale (ǫl) which, according to Grí 36 (quoted in Gylf, SnE 2005, 30), is brought by valkyries to the einherjar in Valhǫll (see Notes to st. 28/9 and 29/5-6 below).
References
- Bibliography
- SnE 2005 = Snorri Sturluson. 2005. Edda: Prologue and Gylfaginning. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2nd edn. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Snorri Sturluson, Gylfaginning’ 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=113> (accessed 16 May 2024)
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