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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Glúmr Gráf 14I/1 — tanna ‘of the teeth’

Kunni tolf, sás, tanna,
tíðum, Hallinskíða
ógnarstafr, of jǫfra,
íþróttir, framm sótti.

Ógnarstafr tanna Hallinskíða, sás tíðum sótti framm of jǫfra, kunni tolf íþróttir.

The terror-stave of the teeth of Hallinskíði <= Heimdallr> [GOLD > GENEROUS MAN], who often launched attacks on princes, had twelve skills.

readings

[1] tanna: kanna 61, Bb

notes

[1, 2] tanna Hallinskíða ‘of the teeth of Hallinskíði <= Heimdallr> [GOLD]’: Gylf (SnE 2005, 25) gives Hallinskíði as a name of the god Heimdallr, and says that his teeth were of gold. Hallinskíði, perhaps ‘one with leaning sticks’, is also a heiti for ‘ram’, and there may be an association between the animal and Heimdallr (see Þul Hrúts 1/6III and Note; Simek 1993, 128-9). — [1] kunni tolf, sás, tanna: On this tripartite line, see Gade (1995a, 215).

kennings

grammar

case: gen.
number: pl.

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