[1] hart hugarkorn ‘a firm kernel of courage [HEART]’: Heroic hearts are both small and hard; cf. HHund I 53/11-12 (NK 138): sá hafði hilmir | hart móðacarn ‘the prince had a firm courage-acorn [HEART]’. C12th kennings depicting the heart as the little ‘hard’ thing in the breast include akarn aldrklifs ‘acorn of the life-cliff [BREAST > HEART]’ and hvǫssu grjóti hugarsess ‘a sharp stone of the mind-seat [BREAST > HEART]’ (RvHbreiðm Hl 30/1-2, 5, 8) (also von See 1978; Meissner 138).
References
- Bibliography
- Meissner = Meissner, Rudolf. 1921. Die Kenningar der Skalden: Ein Beitrag zur skaldischen Poetik. Rheinische Beiträge und Hülfsbücher zur germanischen Philologie und Volkskunde 1. Bonn and Leipzig: Schroeder. Rpt. 1984. Hildesheim etc.: Olms.
- NK = Neckel, Gustav and Hans Kuhn (1899), eds. 1983. Edda: Die Lieder des Codex Regius nebst verwandten Denkmälern. 2 vols. I: Text. 5th edn. Heidelberg: Winter.
- See, Klaus von. 1978. ‘Das Herz in Edda und Skaldendichtung’. skandinavistik 8, 16-26. Rpt. in von See 1981a, 73-83.
- Internal references
- Not published: do not cite ()
- Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Rǫgnvaldr jarl and Hallr Þórarinsson, Háttalykill 30’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1039.