Note to Anon (TGT) 18III
[All]: There are two other stanzas in this section of the treatise (Ólhv Frag 6 and st. 19) which are also in málaháttr. Björn Magnússon Ólsen (TGT 1884, 205) speculates that these belong to the same poem about a jarl (Skúli jarl Bárðarson or Knútr jarl Hákonarson) and all may be the work of Óláfr. They are also grouped together by Finnur Jónsson in Skj with the implication that they may have originally belonged to the same praise poem. Ólhv Frag 6 is attributed in this edn to Óláfr on the basis of its similarity with an example in a Hiberno-Latin commentary (see Ólhv Frag 6, Note to [All]), which may give further credence to Björn’s speculation, but the attribution of all three stanzas to Óláfr and to a single poem remains tenuous.
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.
- Internal references
- Tarrin Wills (ed.) 2017, ‘Óláfr hvítaskáld Þórðarson, Fragments 6’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 306.