[3-4] þeingill þeyranns ‘king of the thawing wind-house [SKY/HEAVEN > = God]’: Although þeyrann is hap. leg. (LP: þeyrann), þeyr is attested in the sense ‘thawing wind, warm wind’, while rann ‘house’ is a common element in heaven- and God-kennings in the earlier Christian drápur (LP: rann). On þeyrann, cf. Anon Mgr 44/6, where heaven is referred to as þeyja borg ‘warm winds’ stronghold’.
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
- Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Drápa af Máríugrát 44’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 790.