Note to Þul Þorgþ II 1III
[All]: In Skj B, Finnur Jónsson (followed by Kock in Skald) renders this stanza in ljóðaháttr metre (see Þorgþ I 2-3 above), emending our ll. 3-4 and giving l. 6 as a full line with internal alliteration: [[ALT]] This reconstruction has little or no support in the ms. witnesses, and Finnur’s l. 3 appears to be based on his reading of Þul Øxna 1/7, which has the pair rauðr ok rekningr (lit. ‘red one and driven one’). The last heiti in that line, rekningr, is most likely a variant of Rekinn, but that form is not attested in any of the extant mss of Þorgþ II. The present edn follows the metrical arrangement of the mss witnesses, which give the stanza as a sequence of long-lines (so also SnE 1998). To be sure, one of the resulting lines (l. 6) is metrically irregular, and it may be that some of the names in the þula have been moved out of their original positions, but that cannot be ascertained.
References
- Bibliography
- Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- 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, Þorgrímsþula I 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. 672.
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Øxna heiti 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 885.