[3] hildingr ‘the warrior’: Hildingr is a heiti for ‘ruler’ (see SnE 1998, I, 103 and Þul Konunga 2/1), but it is derived from hildr ‘battle, war’ and must originally have meant ‘warrior’ (see SnE 1998, II, 309). The present translation preserves the play on words in this stanza.
References
- Bibliography
- SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Konunga heiti 2’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 689.