Eilífr Goðrúnarson (Eil)
10th century; volume 3; ed. Edith Marold;
1. Þórsdrápa (Þdr) - 23
2. Hákonar drápa jarls (Hákdr) - 0
3. Fragment (Frag) - 1
Hardly anything is known about the life of Eilífr Goðrúnarson (Eil). According to Skáldatal (SnE 1848-87, III, 256, 266, 280), he was active as a skald at the court of Hákon jarl Sigurðarson in Norway around the end of the tenth century. Some scholars have argued that a word-play in a stanza preserved in Skm (SnE) conceals the name of Hákon jarl, thus confirming the information of Skáldatal, but the present edition, following Lie (1976, 399) is sceptical of that hypothesis (see Þdr 23, Note to [All]). Eilífr’s only surviving works are the long poem Þórsdrápa (Eil Þdr, 23 stanzas) and one fragment of a Christian poem (Eil Frag).
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Þórsdrápa —
Eil ÞdrIII
Edith Marold with the assistance of Vivian Busch, Jana Krüger, Ann-Dörte Kyas and Katharina Seidel, translated from German by John Foulks 2017, ‘ Eilífr Goðrúnarson, Þórsdrápa’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 68. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1170> (accessed 23 May 2022)
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Skj: Eilífr Goðrúnarson: 2. Þórsdrápa (AI, 148-52, BI, 139-44); stanzas (if different): 4 |
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Cite as: Edith Marold (ed.) 2017, ‘Eilífr Goðrúnarson, Þórsdrápa 2’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 77. Geðstrangrar lét gǫngu
gammleið Þórr fyr skǫmmu
— fýstusk þeir at þrýsta
Þorns niðjum — sik biðja,
þás gjarðvani*ðr gerðisk
Gandvíkr Skotum ríkri
endr til Ymsa kindar
Iðja setrs frá Þriðja. | Þórr lét {gammleið} biðja sik geðstrangrar gǫngu fyr skǫmmu – þeir fýstusk at þrýsta {niðjum Þorns} –, þás gjarðvani*ðr, ríkri {Skotum Gandvíkr}, gerðisk endr frá Þriðja til {kindar Ymsa} {setrs Iðja}. Þórr had {vulture-path} [AIR = Loptr <= Loki> (lopt ‘air’)] invite him on a challenging journey a short time ago – they were eager to crush {the descendants of Þorn <giant>} [GIANTS] –, when the belt-familiar one [= Þórr], mightier than {the Scots of Gandvík} [GIANTS], once set out from Þriði <= Óðinn> for {the offspring of Ymsi <giant>} [GIANT] {towards the seat of Iði <giant>} [MOUNTAINS].
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texts: ‹Skm 75›,
‹SnE 77› editions: Skj Eilífr Goðrúnarson: 2. Þórsdrápa 2 (AI, 148; BI, 139); Skald I, 76, NN §§444, 2502A, 2756D; SnE 1848-87, I, 290-3, III, 25, SnE 1931, 107, SnE 1998, I, 26.
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