Cookies on our website

We use cookies on this website, mainly to provide a secure browsing experience but also to collect statistics on how the website is used. You can find out more about the cookies we set, the information we store and how we use it on the cookies page.

Continue

skaldic

Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

Menu Search

Note to SnSt Lv 5III

[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

  1. Bibliography
  2. 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.
  3. Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.

Close

Log in

This service is only available to members of the relevant projects, and to purchasers of the skaldic volumes published by Brepols.
This service uses cookies. By logging in you agree to the use of cookies on your browser.

Close