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Note to Þul Kálfv 3III

[2] riðu ‘they rode’: Taken here as the verb in a parenthetic clause, with the implied subject ‘they’ referring to Áli and Aðils (so also SnE 1998, II, 376: ríða). Faulkes (SnE 1998, I, 211) suggests that, if sts 2-3 are taken as one stanza, all of the persons mentioned in our st. 2 (Vésteinn, Vifill, Meinþjófr and Morginn) could have been participants in the battle. According to Skjǫldunga saga (ÍF 35, 29) and SnE (SnE 1998, I, 58), Aðils won the battle with the help of twelve berserks sent to him by King Hrólfr kraki ‘Pole-ladder’ of Denmark.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. ÍF 35 = Danakonunga sǫgur. Ed. Bjarni Guðnason. 1982.
  3. SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
  4. Internal references
  5. 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].

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