Grani Frag 1III
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Grani skáld, Fragment 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. 196.
Glœðr ‘glowing embers’
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glóð (noun f.): ember
notes
[1] glœðr ‘glowing embers’: Feminine acc. pl. of glóð ‘red-hot ember, glowing material’.
hykk ‘I believe’
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2. hyggja (verb): think, consider
kennings
… Slóðar Glamma … ;‘… Of the track of Glammi … ; ’
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… Of the track of Glammi … ; → SEA
notes
[1] slóðar Glamma ‘of the track of Glammi <sea-king> [SEA]’: This is a kenning for ‘sea’ with the base-word in the gen., and it must have been a determinant in an extended kenning whose base-word was contained in the missing lines. Kock (NN §874) construes Glœðr hykk feldu, Glamma slóðar gramr eldi svá translated as Lågor, tror jag, fällde husen: havets konung brände så ‘Flames, I believe, destroyed the houses, the king of the ocean burned thus’ (ll. 1-2; assuming that ‘houses’ or something similar, the object of felldu, was present in a no longer extant line). That interpretation is strained because of the unparalleled kenning for ‘sea-king’ (gramr slóðar Glamma ‘ruler of the track of Glammi <sea-king>’). The A and 744ˣ variant, which can be normalised as gamlar flœðar f. acc. pl. ‘old floods’, makes no sense in the context, and ‘flo᷎du’ (Tˣ) cannot be construed in any meaningful way. For the sea-king Glammi, see Note to Þul Sea-kings l. 7.
slóðar ‘Of the track’
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slóð (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): path, track
[1] slóðar: ‘flo᷎du’ Tˣ, flæðar A, 744ˣ
kennings
… Slóðar Glamma … ;‘… Of the track of Glammi … ; ’
= SEA
… Of the track of Glammi … ; → SEA
notes
[1] slóðar Glamma ‘of the track of Glammi <sea-king> [SEA]’: This is a kenning for ‘sea’ with the base-word in the gen., and it must have been a determinant in an extended kenning whose base-word was contained in the missing lines. Kock (NN §874) construes Glœðr hykk feldu, Glamma slóðar gramr eldi svá translated as Lågor, tror jag, fällde husen: havets konung brände så ‘Flames, I believe, destroyed the houses, the king of the ocean burned thus’ (ll. 1-2; assuming that ‘houses’ or something similar, the object of felldu, was present in a no longer extant line). That interpretation is strained because of the unparalleled kenning for ‘sea-king’ (gramr slóðar Glamma ‘ruler of the track of Glammi <sea-king>’). The A and 744ˣ variant, which can be normalised as gamlar flœðar f. acc. pl. ‘old floods’, makes no sense in the context, and ‘flo᷎du’ (Tˣ) cannot be construed in any meaningful way. For the sea-king Glammi, see Note to Þul Sea-kings l. 7.
gramr ‘the lord’
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1. gramr (noun m.): ruler
eldi ‘kindled’
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2. elda (verb; °-ld-): kindle
svá ‘thus’
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svá (adv.): so, thus
notes
[2] felldu ‘felled’: This is the past inf. of fella ‘fell, make fall’, and the object of this verb is likely to have been some type of wooden structure that was destroyed by the fire (cf. Kock’s conjecture above).
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Glœðr ‘glowing embers’ is given in Skm as one of several heiti for ‘fire’.
The couplet is too fragmentary to allow for a meaningful reconstructed reading.
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