Ormr Woman 6III
Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Ormr Steinþórsson, Poem about a woman 6’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 331.
text and translation
Hróðrar njóti funa Fríðr
— Fundins mærða*k salar grund —
(fastan lagðak flagðs gust)
fjarðar (á brims garð).
{Fríðr {funa fjarðar}} njóti hróðrar; mærða*k {grund {salar Fundins}}; lagðak {fastan gust flagðs} á {garð brims}.
‘May the Fríðr <goddess> of the fire of the fjord [GOLD > WOMAN] enjoy my praise; I honoured the land of the hall of Fundinn <dwarf> [STONE > WOMAN]; I set my steadfast gust of the troll-woman [MIND] on the fence of the surf [WAVE]. ’
notes and context
The fragment is quoted in LaufE with the heading ein half staka ‘a half-stanza’ (2368ˣ, 738ˣ) or vísa ‘verse’ (1496ˣ) and lacks any explicit connection to the immediate context. Since it immediately follows the section on kennings for ‘shield’, in which garðr is a cited base-word, possibly the phrase garð brims (‘fence of the surf’) must have been interpreted as such a kenning.
[3-4]: The collocation gust fjarðar á garð brims ‘the gust of the fjord on the fence of the surf’ maintains continuity of images relating to wind at sea.
readings
sources
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.
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GKS 2368 4°x (2368x) — 132 - 132
Hróðrar njóti funa Fríðr
images
— Fundins mærda og salar grund —
(fastan lagðak flagðs gust)
fjarðar (á brims garð). -
AM 738 4°x (738x) — 124v - 124v
Hróðrar njóti funa Fríðr
images
— Fundins mærðar ok salar grund —
(fastan lagðak flagðs gust)
fjarðar (á brims garð). -
Thott 1496 4°x (1496x) — 54v - 54v
Hróðrar njóti funa Fríðr
images
— Fundins mærðar ok salar grund —
(fastan lagðak flagðs gust)
fjarðar (á brims garð). -
Holm papp 5 8°x (papp5 8°x)
editions and texts
LaufE 1979, 397; Jón Helgason 1966a, 177.
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