Fragments — OBarr FragIII
Ormr BarreyjarskáldMargaret Clunies Ross 2017, ‘ Ormr Barreyjarskáld, 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. 320. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1313> (accessed 1 May 2024)
One helmingr and a couplet (OBarr Frag 1 and 2) are all that remain of Ormr’s poetry. It is not clear whether they belong to the same or different poems. The helmingr is quoted in a section of Skm exemplifying kennings for the sky (SnE 1998, I, 34) and the couplet a little later as an example of a kenning for the sea (SnE 1998, I, 36-7). Both stanzas are extant in mss R, Tˣ, W, U and B. Ms. R is the main ms. for both stanzas. Ms. 744ˣ has been consulted because B is very dark and difficult to read on parts of fol. 5r.
References
- Bibliography
- SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Internal references
- (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 1 May 2024)
- Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ormr Barreyjarskáld, 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. 320.
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