[4] fimm hǫfuðskjǫldunga ‘of five principal kings’: Lit. ‘five main Skjǫldungar’. Skjǫldungr, which is a heiti for ‘king, prince’, lit. means ‘descendant of Skjǫldr’. Skjǫldr was a legendary Dan. king (see ÍF 35, 1-90; SnE 1998, II, 507). For Eiríkr’s brothers, the sons of Sveinn Úlfsson, see Note to Anon (Knýtl) 1/8. Five of them (Haraldr, S. Knútr, Eiríkr, Óláfr and Nikulás) were kings of Denmark.
References
- Bibliography
- ÍF 35 = Danakonunga sǫgur. Ed. Bjarni Guðnason. 1982.
- SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Internal references
- Kari Ellen Gade and Diana Whaley (eds) 2009, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Lausavísa from Knýtlinga saga 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 826-7.