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Kristsdrápa — Ník KristdrIII

Níkulás Bergsson

Kari Ellen Gade 2017, ‘ Níkulás Bergsson, Kristsdrápa’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 299. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1310> (accessed 2 May 2024)

 

This stanza, Kristsdrápa ‘Drápa about Christ’ (Ník Kristdr), is attributed to Abbot Níkulás, who is most likely Abbot Níkulás Bergsson of Munkaþverá (d. 1159 or 1160), the probable author of Leiðarvísir ‘Guide pointing out the way’ and the poet who composed Jónsdrápa postula ‘Drápa about the Apostle John’ (Ník JóndrVII; see his Biography in SkP VII). The stanza clearly belongs to a religious poem, but whether this was a drápa about Christ cannot be ascertained. The title is modern and Finnur Jónsson’s construct (Kristsdrápa(?)); Björn Magnússon Ólsen (TGT 1884, 236) tentatively assigns the stanza to Jóndr, which is unlikely given its content, and Kock (Skald) gives the caption Fragment. It is preserved in mss A (main ms.) and W of TGT.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. TGT 1884 = Björn Magnússon Ólsen, ed. 1884. Den tredje og fjærde grammatiske afhandling i Snorres Edda tilligemed de grammatiske afhandlingers prolog og to andre tillæg. SUGNL 12. Copenhagen: Knudtzon.
  3. Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  4. SkP VII = Poetry on Christian Subjects. Ed. Margaret Clunies Ross. 2007.
  5. Internal references
  6. (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 2 May 2024)
  7. Beatrice La Farge 2017, ‘(Biography of) Níkulás Bergsson’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 299.
  8. Beatrice La Farge 2007, ‘ Níkulás Bergsson, Jónsdrápa postula’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 66-9. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1309> (accessed 2 May 2024)
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