Note to Styrkárr Frag 1III
[All]: The incident alluded to cannot be identified with certainty. Faulkes (SnE 1998, I, 200) suggests that it may belong to the story of Hildr Hǫgnadóttir, related in Skm (SnE 1998, I, 72) and mentioned in Bragi Rdr 8-11, RvHbreiðm Hl 45-6 and SnSt Ht 49. In Snorri’s account, the legendary King Hǫgni pursued by ship and confronted King Heðinn Hjarrandason, who had invaded his kingdom and abducted his daughter Hildr (whose name means ‘battle’), with the consequence that the two kings’ forces are doomed to fight a daily battle (Hjaðningavíg ‘Battle of the Hjaðningar’) to the end of time (see Context to Bragi Rdr 8). If that is the case, the kenning støkkvi hyrjar flóðs ‘scatterer of the flood’s fire [GOLD > GENEROUS MAN]’ (ll. 1, 4) would refer to Heðinn.
References
- Bibliography
- SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- 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 24 April 2024)
- Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Bragi inn gamli Boddason, Ragnarsdrápa 8’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 39.
- Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Rǫgnvaldr jarl and Hallr Þórarinsson, Háttalykill 45’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1053.
- Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Snorri Sturluson, Háttatal 49’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1158.