Note to Skúli Svǫlðr 4III
[3-4] haugþak herfylgins Hǫlga ‘barrow-thatch of host-accompanying Hǫlgi <legendary king> [GOLD]’: Hǫlgi was a legendary king of Hålogaland in northern Norway and father of Þorgerðr Hǫlgabrúðr (see SnE 1998, I, 60 and Note to Þul Trollkvenna 2/8). While Þorgerðr appears elsewhere as an object of pagan worship (Simek 1993, 326-7; Guðrún Nordal 2001, 49), almost all our information on Hǫlgi is in this stanza and its introductory prose, where Snorri describes how his grave-mound comprised a layer of offerings (blótféit) of gold or silver, and a layer of dirt and gravel (cf. also Þhorn Harkv 14/4I and ÞorlJ ch. 7, ÍF 9, 226).
References
- Bibliography
- Guðrún Nordal. 2001. Tools of Literacy: The Role of Skaldic Verse in Icelandic Textual Culture of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries. Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press.
- SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- ÍF 9 = Eyfirðinga sǫgur. Ed. Jónas Kristjánsson. 1956.
- Simek, Rudolf. 1993. Dictionary of Northern Mythology. Trans. Angela Hall. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Þorleifs þáttr jarlaskálds’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=50> (accessed 25 April 2024)
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Trollkvenna heiti 2’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 725.
- R. D. Fulk (ed.) 2012, ‘Þorbjǫrn hornklofi, Haraldskvæði (Hrafnsmál) 14’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 108.