Note to Anon (FoGT) 12III
[1] kalla mig ‘I call myself’: So translated here in view of the sense of the prose commentary, even though one would expect köllumz for ‘I call myself’. Two other interpretations of l. 1 are also possible, ‘they call me water’ and ‘call me water’; cf. FoGT 1884, 254 n. 1. Compare a very similar enumeration of the qualities of a poet and a troll-woman, respectively, in Bragi Troll and Anon (SnE) 9, where the first lines begin Skald kalla mik ‘They call me poet’ and Troll kalla mik ‘They call me troll’.
References
- Bibliography
- FoGT 1884 = Björn Magnússon Ólsen, ed. 1884. Den tredje og fjærde grammatiske afhandling i Snorres Edda tilligemed de grammatiske afhandlingers prolog og to andre tillæg. SUGNL 12. Copenhagen: Knudtzon.
- Internal references
- Margaret Clunies Ross 2017, ‘ Bragi inn gamli Boddason, An exchange of verses between Bragi and a troll-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. 63. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1131> (accessed 14 April 2025)
- Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from Snorra Edda 9’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 519.