Note to Þul Kvenna II 1III
[7] Gefjun ok Hǫrn ‘Gefjun and Hǫrn’: Spelled ‘gefivn hora’ in the ms. The conjunction ok ‘and’ has been added for metrical reasons in keeping with earlier eds. The word ‘hora’ (normalised hóra ‘whore’) is most likely to be a scribal error. Although hóra ‘whore’ is a term for ‘woman’, the word is not appropriate in the context of a þula that enumerates base-words in kennings for ‘woman’. The emendation Hǫrn, a name for Freyja (see Þul Ásynja 3/4), was suggested by Konráð Gíslason (Nj 1875-89, II, 898) and accepted by all subsequent eds (cf. SnE 1848-87, II, 489 n. 3).
References
- Bibliography
- SnE 1848-87 = Snorri Sturluson. 1848-87. Edda Snorra Sturlusonar: Edda Snorronis Sturlaei. Ed. Jón Sigurðsson et al. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Legatum Arnamagnaeanum. Rpt. Osnabrück: Zeller, 1966.
- Nj 1875-89 = Konráð Gíslason and Eiríkur Jónsson. 1875-89. Njála: Udgivet efter gamle håndskrifter. Íslendingasögur udgivne efter gamle haandskrifter af Det Kongelige Nordiske Oldskrift-selskab 4. Copenhagen: Thiele.
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Ásynja heiti 3’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 768.