Note to Anon (FoGT) 25III
[All]: ÞSjár Frag 3, transmitted in mss R, Tˣ and W of SnE (Skm), provides an earlier example of exactly the same rhetorical practice as is illustrated here, with each line of the first helmingr forming an independent clause with the corresponding line of the second helmingr. It is interesting that in Þórðr Sjáreksson’s stanza the subject-matter of the clauses is taken from Old Norse myth and legend, while here it comes from Norwegian history. This may suggest that there was a requirement in all forms of what FoGT terms antitheton that the subject-matter comprise condensed references to myth, legend or, in this case, historical figures. In the Latin treatises, examples given are of Old Testament characters. Like ÞSjár Frag 3, this stanza and st. 26 are in runhent metre (here, fornyrðislag, Types E and B).
References
- Internal references
- Edith Marold 2017, ‘Snorra Edda (Prologue, Gylfaginning, Skáldskaparmál)’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols [check printed volume for citation].
- (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, The Fourth Grammatical Treatise’ 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=34> (accessed 3 June 2024)
- (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 3 June 2024)
- Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Þórðr Særeksson (Sjáreksson), Fragments 3’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 478.