[All]: Of the seventeen names of the supernatural beings listed in this stanza only four occur in skaldic poetry as base-words in kennings for ‘man’. Other than Baldr (l. 2), which appears frequently in this type of kenning, these are Váli (l. 4), Hermóðr (l. 6) and Hǫðr (l. 10). For a discussion of this þula and the corresponding sections in Skm (SnE 1998, I, 19-20), see Gade (2006).
References
- Bibliography
- SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Gade, Kari Ellen. 2006. ‘“Hǫðr … sonr Óðins” – but did Snorri know that?’. In McKinnell et al. 2006, I, 268-77.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Snorri Sturluson, Skáldskaparmál’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=112> (accessed 19 April 2024)