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Note to RvHbreiðm Hl 73III

[3-4]: Skj B and Skald construe the kennings in the last clause as follows: skerðir hneigiborða meyjar Viðris ‘the diminisher of the bending-boards of Viðrir’s <= Óðinn’s> maidens [VALKYRIES > SHIELDS > WARRIOR]’ (ll. 3, 4); þeyja hjǫrva ‘the swords’ warm winds [BATTLES]’ (l. 4). Jón Helgason (Hl 1941) offers skerðir hneigiborða þeyja hjǫrva háði Viðris meyja ‘the diminisher of the bending-boards of the warm winds of swords [BATTLES > SHIELDS > WARRIOR] held Viðrir’s maidens [VALKYRIES = BATTLE]’. But as Holtsmark points out (Hl 1941), þeyja Viðris meyja ‘the warm winds of Viðrir’s maidens’ must go together.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
  3. Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  4. Hl 1941 = Jón Helgason and Anne Holtsmark, eds. 1941. Háttalykill enn forni. BA 1. Copenhagen: Munksgaard.

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