[1]: Cf. ESk Geisl 41/4VII ból dreka ‘dwelling of the dragon [GOLD]’. The kenning alludes to the dragon Fáfnir and his hoard (Skm, SnE 1998, I, 47): gullit er kallat ból eða bygð Fáfnis ‘gold is called the lair or dwelling of Fáfnir’.
References
- Bibliography
- SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Snorri Sturluson, Skáldskaparmál’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=112> (accessed 29 May 2024)
- Martin Chase (ed.) 2007, ‘Einarr Skúlason, Geisli 41’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 41.