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Note to Arn Frag 7III

[All]: Although certainty is impossible, the line is likely to be a remnant of a sentence portraying a warrior feeding the eagle each summer (by making carrion out of his enemies), with dat. sg. frekum erni ‘to the greedy eagle’ as an indirect object. Such a statement could refer to any of Arnórr’s patrons Rǫgnvaldr jarl Brúsason, Magnús góði ‘the Good’, Þorfinnr jarl Sigurðarson or Haraldr Sigurðarson, and could therefore have come from any of his extant dróttkvætt poems, respectively Arn RdrII, Arn MagndrII, Arn ÞorfdrII or Arn HardrII, or conceivably from the putative Blágagladrápa (see Note to Frag 3 [All]). Finnur Jónsson (SnE 1848-87, III, 572-3 and n. 5) tentatively lists the line as st. 8 of Arn HardrII (and prints it in Skj as st. 6 of the same poem), remarking that Snorri Sturluson’s description in Haralds saga Sigurðarsonar (HSigHkr ch. 33, ÍF 28, 112) of Haraldr harrying Denmark hvert sumar eptir annat ‘one summer after another’ could derive from this stanza. That is possible, but far from certain, especially since Snorri cites not from Arnórr at this point but from Stúfr Stúfdr 5/4II, which contains the phrase hvert ár ‘every year’.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. 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.
  3. ÍF 26-8 = Heimskringla. Ed. Bjarni Aðalbjarnarson. 1941-51.
  4. Internal references
  5. Diana Whaley 2009, ‘ Arnórr jarlaskáld Þórðarson, Haraldsdrápa’ 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. 260-80. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1099> (accessed 19 March 2024)
  6. Diana Whaley 2009, ‘ Arnórr jarlaskáld Þórðarson, Magnússdrápa’ 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. 206-29. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1102> (accessed 19 March 2024)
  7. Diana Whaley 2009, ‘ Arnórr jarlaskáld Þórðarson, Þorfinnsdrápa’ 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. 229-60. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1104> (accessed 19 March 2024)
  8. Margaret Clunies Ross 2017, ‘ Bragi inn gamli Boddason, Ragnarsdrápa’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 27. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1130> (accessed 19 March 2024)
  9. Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Stúfr inn blindi Þórðarson kattar, Stúfsdrápa 5’ 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, p. 355.

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