This interface will soon cease to be publicly available. Use the new interface instead. Click here to switch over now.

Cookies on our website

We use cookies on this website, mainly to provide a secure browsing experience but also to collect statistics on how the website is used. You can find out more about the cookies we set, the information we store and how we use it on the cookies page.

Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages
login: password: stay logged in: help

mobile home

Note to stanza

3. Anonymous Poems, Málsháttakvæði, 11 [Vol. 3, 1225]

[5-8]: These lines constitute the stef or ‘refrain’ of Mhkv and appear again at sts 14/5-8, 17/5-8, and 20/5-8. The refrain also occurs in Flat (Flat 1860-8, I, 583) at the end of Haralds saga hárfagra, which tells of the king’s bewitchment by the beautiful Snjófríðr (Snæfríðr ‘snow-beautiful’). The text of the two refrains differs slightly here, suggesting that the scribe of Flat may have written it out from memory. The story of Snjófríðr is told in Ágrip (Ágr chs 3-4, ÍF 29, 5-7) and Haralds saga hárfagra (HhárfHkr ch. 25, ÍF 26, 125-7); see Mundal (1997). See also Hhárf SnædrI. On the relationship between these tales and Ormr Woman, see Poole (1982); on Saami in Old Norse literature, Hermann Pálsson (1997 and 1999b).

references

Ágr = Ágrip af Nóregs konunga sög… ∙ is referred to in ∙ Anon Mhkv 11, n. 5-8 (SkP 3)

Flat 1860-8 = Gudbrand Vig… ∙ is referred to in ∙ Anon Mhkv 11, n. 5-8 (SkP 3)

ÍF 26-8 = Bjarni Aðalbjarn… ∙ is referred to in ∙ Anon Mhkv 11, n. 5-8 (SkP 3)

ÍF 29 = Bjarni Aðalbjarnar… ∙ is referred to in ∙ Anon Mhkv 11, n. 5-8 (SkP 3)

Hermann Pálsson. 1997. Úr landnorðri: Sa… ∙ is referred to in ∙ Anon Mhkv 11, n. 5-8 (SkP 3)

Poole, Russell. 1982. Ormr Steinþórsson … ∙ is referred to in ∙ Anon Mhkv 11, n. 5-8 (SkP 3)

Mundal, Else. 1997. Kong Harald hårfagre… ∙ is referred to in ∙ Anon Mhkv 11, n. 5-8 (SkP 3)

Haralds saga hárfagra ∙ is referred to in ∙ Anon Mhkv 11, n. 5-8 (SkP 3)

Anon, Mhkv ∙ is referred to in ∙ Anon Mhkv 11, n. 5-8 (SkP 3)

Hhárf, Snædr ∙ is referred to in ∙ Anon Mhkv 11, n. 5-8 (SkP 3)

mobile home

© Skaldic Project Academic Body, unless otherwise noted. Database structure and interface developed by Tarrin Wills. All users of material on this database are reminded that its content may be either subject to copyright restrictions or is the property of the custodians of linked databases that have given permission for members of the skaldic project to use their material for research purposes. Those users who have been given access to as yet unpublished material are further reminded that they may not use, publish or otherwise manipulate such material except with the express permission of the individual editor of the material in question and the General Editor of the volume in which the material is to be published. Applications for permission to use such material should be made in the first instance to the General Editor of the volume in question. All information that appears in the published volumes has been thoroughly reviewed. If you believe some information here is incorrect please contact Tarrin Wills with full details.