Note to Þul Orrostu 2III
[4] drima (f.) ‘noise’: A hap. leg. The word is probably identical with þrima f. ‘sound’ (l. 8), because in such compounds as eggþrima ‘edge-clash’ þ > ð or d (Falk 1889c, 266; AEW: drima). Thus the original meaning must be ‘uproar, noise’. In mss B and Tˣ drima is replaced by drífa f. ‘driving, blowing, drifting snow’, which frequently occurs as a base-word in kennings for ‘battle’ (cf. LP: drífa 1) but never as a heiti for ‘battle’. See also Þul Ǫrvar 1/3. In the LaufE mss, this word is rendered as ‘druna’ (papp10ˣ(49v), 2368ˣ(121)) and ‘drima’ (743ˣ(92r)), which shows that drífa is probably an independent innovation (lectio facilior) in both Tˣ and B.
References
- Bibliography
- AEW = Vries, Jan de. 1962. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2nd rev. edn. Rpt. 1977. Leiden: Brill.
- LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
- Falk, Hjalmar. 1889c. ‘Med hvilken ret kaldes skaldesproget kunstigt? 1. Homonymiens rolle. 2. De saakaldte halfkenningar. 3. Personnavnes indflydelse paa mands- og kvindekenningar. 4. Oversigt over det poetiske udtryks udvikling’. ANF 5, 245-77.
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Ǫrvar 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. 818.
- (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Laufás Edda’ 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=10928> (accessed 20 April 2024)