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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Ormr FragIII
Russell Poole 2017, ‘ Ormr Steinþórsson, Fragments’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 332. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1337> (accessed 27 May 2022)
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Skj: Ormr Steinþórsson: 2. Af et ubestemmeligt digt (AI, 416, BI, 386)
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Cite as: Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Ormr Steinþórsson, Fragments 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 332. Ræðk þenna mǫg manni
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Vindsvals unað blindum.
| Ræðk blindum manni unað {þenna mǫg Vindsvals} … I devise pleasure for a blind man {this son of Vindsvalr <giant>} [= Vetr (vetr ‘winter’)] …
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texts: ‹Skm 139›,
‹SnE 141› editions: Skj Ormr Steinþórsson: 2. Af et ubestemmeligt digt 1 (AI, 416; BI, 386); Skald I, 191; SnE 1848-87, I, 332-3, II, 318, 531, III, 55, SnE 1931, 119, SnE 1998, I, 39.
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GKS 2367 4° (R) |
26v, 33 - 26v, 33 |
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Traj 1374x (Tx) |
27v, 24 - 27v, 24 |
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AM 242 fol (W) |
58, 4 - 58, 4 |
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DG 11 (U) |
30r - 30r |
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AM 757 a 4° (B) |
5v, 4 - 5v, 4 |
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AM 761 b 4°x (761bx) |
265r, 2 - 265r, 3 |
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