[All]: Brynhildr is probably to be identified with one of the female protagonists of the Vǫlsung legends, and, if so, her brother would be Atli Buðlason. It is unclear to which legend this particular fragment may refer, but Björn Magnússon Ólsen (TGT 1884) compares Akv 32/1-4 (NK 245) Atli lét | lanz síns á vit | ió eyrscán | aptr frá morði ‘Atli turned his gravel-treading horse towards his land, back from the murder’ (Larrington 2014, 209) and Anon Kálfv 4/3, which mentions his horse Glaumr.
References
- Bibliography
- TGT 1884 = Björn Magnússon Ólsen, ed. 1884. Den tredje og fjærde grammatiske afhandling i Snorres Edda tilligemed de grammatiske afhandlingers prolog og to andre tillæg. SUGNL 12. Copenhagen: Knudtzon.
- NK = Neckel, Gustav and Hans Kuhn (1899), eds. 1983. Edda: Die Lieder des Codex Regius nebst verwandten Denkmälern. 2 vols. I: Text. 5th edn. Heidelberg: Winter.
- Larrington, Carolyne, trans. 1996. The Poetic Edda. The World’s Classics. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
- Larrington, Carolyne, trans. 2014. The Poetic Edda. Rev. edn. Oxford World’s Classics. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
- Internal references
- Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Kálfsvísa 4’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 668.
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