[All]: The fragment is preserved only in the Y branch of LaufE and in RE 1665(Ff) (copied from a LaufE Y ms. and not used in the present edn). The route by which it entered the tradition is unknown (LaufE 1979, 176). No poem by Arnórr in praise of a Danish ruler is specifically mentioned in the medieval sources. However, the Danish allusions in l. 2 (Dǫnum ‘Danes’) and l. 4 (Skônunga ‘Skánungar’) would tally with the fact that Skáldatal (SnE 1848-87, III, 258, 267) lists Arnórr among the poets who composed in honour of Knútr inn ríki (Cnut the Great), and the fragment may well praise Knútr’s generosity to his retainers.
References
- Bibliography
- 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.
- LaufE 1979 = Faulkes, Anthony, ed. 1979. Edda Magnúsar Ólafssonar (Laufás Edda). RSÁM 13. Vol. I of Two Versions of Snorra Edda from the 17th Century. Reykjavík: Stofnun Árna Magnússonar, 1977-9.
- Internal references
- Not published: do not cite ()
- (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Laufás Edda’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=10928> (accessed 19 March 2024)