Eilífr Goðrúnarson — EilIII
skaldsVol. 3, 68 — — ed. Edith Marold
Poetry
Þórsdrápa23
- Introduction and information about text
- 1. ‘Flugstalla réð felli ...’
- 2. ‘Geðstrangr of lét gǫngu ...’
- 3. ‘Gǫrr, varð í fǫr fyrri ...’
- 4. ‘Vôru vǫtn ok mýrar, ...’
- 5. ‘Ok, Gangs, vanir gingu ...’
- 6. ‘Ok vegþverrir varra ...’
- 7. ‘Þar í mǫrk fyrir (-markar ...’
- 8. ‘Harðvaxnar leit herðar ...’
- 9. ‘Óðu fast (en) fríðir ...’
- 10. ‘Unz með ýta sinni ...’
- 11. ‘Né djúp- akǫrn drôpu ...’
- 12. ‘Ok sifuna síðan ...’
- 13. ‘Dreif fyr dróttar kneyfi ...’
- 14. ‘Þars í þróttar hersar ...’
- 15. ‘Ok, hôm, loga himni ...’
- 16. ‘Fátíða nam frœði, ...’
- 17. ‘Þrøngvir gein við þungum ...’
- 18. ‘Svát hraðskyndir handa ...’
- 19. ‘Bifðisk hǫll þás hǫfði ...’
- 20. ‘Glaums niðjum fór gǫrva ...’
- 21. ‘Herblótinn vá hneitir ...’
- 22. ‘Vreiðr stóð Vrǫsku bróðir, ...’
- 23. ‘Verðið ér, alls orða ...’
Biography
Hardly anything is known about the life of Eilífr Goðrúnarson (Eil). According to Skáldatal (SnE 1848-87, III, 256, 266, 280), he was active as a skald at the court of Hákon jarl Sigurðarson in Norway around the end of the tenth century. Some scholars have argued that a word-play in a stanza preserved in Skm (SnE) conceals the name of Hákon jarl, thus confirming the information of Skáldatal, but the present edition, following Lie (1976, 399) is sceptical of that hypothesis (see Þdr 23, Note to [All]). Eilífr’s only surviving works are the long poem Þórsdrápa (Eil Þdr, 23 stanzas) and one fragment of a Christian poem (Eil Frag).
References
- Bibliography
- SnE 1848-87 = Snorri Sturluson. 1848-87. Edda Snorra Sturlusonar: Edda Snorronis Sturlaei. Ed. Jón Sigurðsson et al. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Legatum Arnamagnaeanum. Rpt. Osnabrück: Zeller, 1966.
- Lie, Hallvard. 1976. ‘Þórsdrápa’. KLNM 20, 397-400.
- 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 25 April 2024)
- Edith Marold with the assistance of Vivian Busch, Jana Krüger, Ann-Dörte Kyas and Katharina Seidel, translated from German by John Foulks 2017, ‘ Eilífr Goðrúnarson, Þórsdrápa’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 68. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1170> (accessed 25 April 2024)
- Jana Krüger, translated from German by John Foulks 2017, ‘ Eilífr Goðrúnarson, Fragment’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 126. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1171> (accessed 25 April 2024)
- Edith Marold (ed.) 2017, ‘Eilífr Goðrúnarson, Þórsdrápa 23’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 124.
- Not published: do not cite ()
other information
Eilífr Goðrúnarson (Eil)
10th century
Skj AI, 148-52; BI, 139-44
volume 3
main editor: Edith Marold