[1, 2] einskǫpuðr galdra herfanga ‘the one creator of incantations of army-tunics [BYRNIES > BATTLES > = Óðinn]’: The present interpretation follows TGT 1927. In Skj B Finnur Jónsson adopts Sveinbjörn Egilsson’s version (SnE 1848-87, III) of the helmingr and construes einskǫpuðr galdra ‘the one creator of incantations > = Óðinn]’ and hjaldr herfanga ‘the din of army-tunics [BYRNIES > BATTLE]’ (so also LP: herfang 2). Hjaldr is, however, much more common as a heiti for ‘battle’ than as a base-word in battle-kennings (see LP: hjaldr 1, 2). Björn Magnússon Ólsen (TGT 1884) takes herfanga ‘of army-struggles’ (with ‑fanga as a gen. pl. in the meaning ‘struggles, wrestling’) with einskǫpuðr ‘the one creator’ (einskǫpuðr herfanga ‘the one creator of army-struggles’ [BATTLES > WARRIOR > = Óðinn]’) and construes hjaldrgaldra ‘din-incantations’ as a kenning for ‘battle’.
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.
- Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
- 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.
- LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
- TGT 1927 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1927b. Óláfr Þórðarson: Málhljóða- og málskrúðsrit. Grammatisk-retorisk afhandling. Det kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab. Historisk-filologiske meddelelser 13, 2. Copenhagen: Høst.