[1-2] elfar úlfseðjandi ‘feeder of the wolf of the river [(lit. ‘wolf-feeder of the river’) SHIP > SEAFARER]’: A somewhat playful inverted kenning, imagining the master of the ship ‘feeding’, i.e. loading, cargo into his ship. Kock (NN §2825) compares the ‘feeding the wolf’ imagery to ESk Elfv 1/3-4II, but that context of a nautical battle with many casualties fallen into the sea is quite different.
References
- Bibliography
- NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- Internal references
- Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Einarr Skúlason, Elfarvísur 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 566-7.