[3] bjór Yggjar ‘the strong drink of Yggr <= Óðinn> [POETRY]’: This kenning for ‘poetry’ is found elsewhere only in Bjbp Jóms 1/6I (as noted by Kreutzer 1977, 107, 116). Bjórr refers to a beverage, probably based on honey, with high alcoholic content; prose citations suggest an imported luxury (ONP: bjórr).
References
- Bibliography
- Kreutzer, Gert. 1977. Die Dichtungslehre der Skalden: Poetologische Terminologie und Autorenkommentare als Grundlage einer Gattungspoetik. 2nd edn. Hochschulschriften: Literaturwissenschaft 1. Meisenheim am Glan: Hain.
- ONP = Degnbol, Helle et al., eds. 1989-. A Dictionary of Old Norse Prose / Ordbog over det norrøne prosasprog. 1-. Copenhagen: The Arnamagnæan Commission.
- Internal references
- Emily Lethbridge (ed.) 2012, ‘Bjarni byskup Kolbeinsson, Jómsvíkingadrápa 1’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 959.