Ormr Steinþórsson (Ormr)
11th century; volume 3; ed. Russell Poole;
1. Poem about a woman (Woman) - 7
2. Fragments (Frag) - 2
Nothing is known about Ormr Steinþórsson (Ormr). The patronymic indicates that he was probably an Icelander rather than a Norwegian (Ólafur Halldórsson 1969b, 156). Finnur Jónsson (Skj AI, 415) places him in the eleventh century, with a query, but commonalities between his work and certain other poems, noted below, make a floruit in the late twelfth century, perhaps even the turn of the thirteenth, more probable. He appears from the internal evidence of poetic fragments attributed to him to have composed for both male and female patrons; one of the male recipients was evidently blind (see Introduction to Ormr Frag below).
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Poem about a woman —
Ormr WomanIII
Russell Poole 2017, ‘(Introduction to) Ormr Steinþórsson, Poem about a woman’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 323.
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for reference only: 1x
Skj: Ormr Steinþórsson: 1. Af et digt om en kvinde (?) (AI, 415-416, BI, 385); stanzas (if different): 1 |
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Cite as: Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Ormr Steinþórsson, Poem about a woman 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. 326. Þvít hols hrynbáls
hramma, þats berk framm,
Billings á burar full
bjarkar hefk lagit mark.
| Þvít [e]k hef lagit mark {bjarkar {hols hrynbáls hramma}} á {full {burar Billings}}, þats berk framm. Because I have placed the mark {of the birch {of the hollow ringing fire of hands}} [RING > WOMAN] on {the cup {of the son of Billingr <dwarf>}} [DWARF > POEM], which I deliver.
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texts: ‹LaufE 131 (379)›,
‹Skm 209›,
‹SnE 211› editions: Skj Ormr Steinþórsson: 1. Af et digt om en kvinde (?) 4 (AI, 416; BI, 385); Skald I, 191; SnE 1848-87, I, 412-13, II, 324, 435, 584, III, 74, SnE 1931, 147, SnE 1998, I, 64; LaufE 1979, I, 379.
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GKS 2367 4° (R) |
33r, 30 - 33r, 31 |
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Traj 1374x (Tx) |
34v, 26 - 34v, 26 |
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AM 242 fol (W) |
76, 20 - 76, 21 |
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DG 11 (U) |
32r, 9 - 32r, 11 |
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AM 748 I b 4° (A) |
10v, 13 - 10v, 14 |
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AM 748 II 4° (C) |
4v, 19 - 4v, 20 |
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GKS 2368 4°x (2368x) |
119 - 119 |
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AM 743 4°x (743x) |
90v - 90v |
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AM 761 b 4°x (761bx) |
264v, 2 - 264v, 5 |
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