[6] Eljárnir: Eleazar Avaran, crushed beneath the elephant he had stabbed from below in 1 Macc. VI.43-7, the only allusion to a biblical story in Mhkv and one of the more embarrassing deaths in world history. Guðbrandur Vigfússon (CPB II, 363) was first to identify Eljárnir with the Hebrew hero. Hermann Pálsson (1984, 263) sees a confusion between the pers. n. Eleazar and the adj. aljárnaðr ‘caparisoned’, used of the elephant killed by Eleazar in Gyðinga saga.
References
- Bibliography
- CPB = Gudbrand Vigfusson [Guðbrandur Vigfússon] and F. York Powell, eds. 1883. Corpus poeticum boreale: The Poetry of the Old Northern Tongue from the Earliest Times to the Thirteenth Century. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon. Rpt. 1965, New York: Russell & Russell.
- Hermann Pálsson. 1984. ‘A Florilegium in Norse from Medieval Orkney’. In Fenton et al. 1984, 258-64.
- Internal references
- Roberta Frank 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Málsháttakvæði’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1213. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1029> (accessed 26 April 2024)
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