Ǫlvir hnúfa (Ǫlv)
9th century; volume 1; ed. Margaret Clunies Ross;
Lausavísa (Lv) - 1
III. Poem about Þórr (Þórr) - 1
The little information we possess about Ǫlvir hnúfa ‘Snub-nose’ (?) (Ǫlv) comes from the following sources: from Egils saga (Eg, ÍF 2, 3-4 n.), where this ninth-century Norwegian skald is said to be the son of Berðlu-Kári, viking companion of Egill Skallagrímsson’s paternal grandfather, Kveldúlfr; from Gullþóris saga (GullÞ), alternatively known as Þorskfirðinga saga (ÍF 13, 226), and from Skálda saga Haralds konungs hárfagra (Skáld) in Hauksbók (Hb 1892-6, 445-55). Two fragments by Ǫlvir have survived: a lausavísa (Ǫlv Lv) from Skáld, edited below, and a couplet (Ǫlv ÞórrIII) from a poem probably about the god Þórr’s fight with the Miðgarðsormr ‘World Serpent’ in mss of SnE (1998, I, 15), edited in SkP III.
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Poem about Þórr —
Ǫlv ÞórrIII
Margaret Clunies Ross 2017, ‘ Ǫlvir hnúfa, Poem about Þórr’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 491. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1334> (accessed 29 June 2022)
stanzas: 1
Skj: Ǫlvir hnúfa: 1. Af et digt om Tor(?) (AI, 6, BI, 6); stanzas (if different): [v]
in texts: Skm, SnE
SkP info: III, 491
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Two dróttkvætt lines ascribed in mss R, Tˣ, W and U of Skm (SnE 1998, I, 15) to Ǫlvir hnúfa ‘Snub-nose (?)’ (Ǫlv Þórr) are all that remain of a poem, probably about the god Þórr’s fight with the World Serpent, Miðgarðsormr, a popular subject for mythological poetry in the ninth and tenth centuries (see Introduction to Bragi Þórr for details). Ms. R is taken as the main ms. |
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