Fragments — Arn FragIII
Arnórr jarlaskáld ÞórðarsonDiana Whaley 2017, ‘ Arnórr jarlaskáld Þórðarson, Fragments’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 3. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1105> (accessed 7 May 2024)
Eight fragments (Arn Frag 1-8) are cited within treatises on poetry and credited to Arnórr jarlaskáld but without any indication of the poems from which they are extracted, and their content does not allow any firm conclusions to be drawn. Frag 2, 3, 7 and probably 6 contain battle imagery which would be compatible with more than one of Arnórr’s drápur; Frag 1 has an unusual subject in S. Michael; and Frag 4 commemorates a gift to Danish retainers. The topics of Frag 5 and 8 cannot even be guessed at. The fragments are presented here in order of length. Frag 1-3 are helmingar from Skm (SnE), Frag 4-6 are a helmingr and two couplets from LaufE, Frag 7 is a single line from TGT, and Frag 8 is a kenning (two words) from LaufE. See individual stanzas for details of mss.
References
- 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), ‘ Óláfr hvítaskáld Þórðarson, The Third Grammatical Treatise’ in Tarrin Wills (ed.), The Third Grammatical Treatise. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=32> (accessed 7 May 2024)
- (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 7 May 2024)
- Diana Whaley (ed.) 2017, ‘Arnórr jarlaskáld Þórðarson, Fragments 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 3.
- (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Laufás Edda’ 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=10928> (accessed 7 May 2024)
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