Edith Marold (ed.) 2017, ‘Úlfr Uggason, Húsdrápa 5’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 414.
Þjokkvǫxnum kvað þykkja
þikling firin*mikla
hafra njótr at hǫfgum
hætting megindrætti.
{Njótr hafra} kvað þjokkvǫxnum þikling þykkja firin*mikla hætting at hǫfgum megindrætti.
‘The user of goats [= Þórr] said that it seemed a very great danger to the heavy-set fat one from the weighty powerful pull. ’
The helmingr is listed in Skm (SnE) among examples of Þórr-kennings.
This stanza is attributed to Úlfr Uggason in ms. U and to Bragi Boddason in mss R, W. Mogk (1880, 324) regards the correct use of hendingar as evidence of Úlfr Uggason’s authorship.
Text is based on reconstruction from the base text and variant apparatus and may contain alternative spellings and other normalisations not visible in the manuscript text. Transcriptions may not have been checked and should not be cited.
Þjokkvǫxnum kvað þykkja
þikling †firing†mikla
hafra njóts at
hætting megindrætti.
Þiockvꜹxnvm qvað þyckia þikling firing mikla hafra niotz at | hætting megin drætti
(KS)
Þjokkvǫxnum kvað þykkja
þikling †faren†mikla
hafra njóts at hǫfgum
hætting megindrætti.
Þjokkvǫxnum kvezk þykkja
þiklings fyrirmiklum
hafra †mæs† at hǫfgum
hætting megindrætti.
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