Fragments — Ormr FragIII
Ormr Steinþórsson
Russell Poole 2017, ‘ Ormr Steinþórsson, 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. 332. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1337> (accessed 18 May 2024)
Two fragments by
Ormr Steinþórsson (
Ormr Frag) are transmitted in
Skm (
SnE). Fragment 1 is attested, with attribution to
Ormr Steinþórsson, in
SnE mss R (main ms.),
Tˣ, W, U and B. Fragment 2 appears uniquely in U. It is assumed by Finnur Jónsson (
Skj), followed by Kock (
Skald), that these two fragments belong to a single poem, but in fact there is no basis for certainty on this score (cf.
SnE 1998,
I, 183) and some slight indications against. Fragment 1 seems to envisage delivery of the poem to a blind man (though see Note to st. 2/1, 2 below), whereas Frag 2 speaks of delivery to a larger audience (though this could be conventional).
References
- Bibliography
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- 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 18 May 2024)
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