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Note to Refr Giz 1III

[5, 8] dalsteypir; ôr strauma ‘the bow-destroyer [WARRIOR]; messenger of currents [SEAFARER]’: This edn follows Kock’s (NN §784) interpretation (so also ÍF 27 and Turville-Petre 1976, 91). Dalsteypir ‘bow-destroyer’ has parallels in such kennings as skerðir málma ‘diminisher of weapons’ (Sturl Hryn 2/6II; see also Meissner 288). Kock (NN §839) himself lists several parallels of ôrr strauma ‘messenger of currents [SEAFARER]’. On the use of ôrr ‘messenger’ for ‘man’, see Meissner 272. The interpretation offered by Finnur Jónsson (Skj B; Hkr 1893-1901), by contrast, requires both rearranging the kenning as well as isolating ár in l. 8: strauma dalsteypir = steypir strauma dal(s) ‘pourer of the currents of the bow [ARROWS > WARRIOR]’; ár (l. 8) is rendered as an adv. (ár ‘quickly’; cf. LP: 2. ár 5) modifying hjó ‘hew, struck’ (l. 1).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
  3. NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  4. Meissner = Meissner, Rudolf. 1921. Die Kenningar der Skalden: Ein Beitrag zur skaldischen Poetik. Rheinische Beiträge und Hülfsbücher zur germanischen Philologie und Volkskunde 1. Bonn and Leipzig: Schroeder. Rpt. 1984. Hildesheim etc.: Olms.
  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. Turville-Petre, Gabriel. 1976. Scaldic Poetry. Oxford: Clarendon.
  7. ÍF 26-8 = Heimskringla. Ed. Bjarni Aðalbjarnarson. 1941-51.
  8. Hkr 1893-1901 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1893-1901. Heimskringla: Nóregs konunga sǫgur af Snorri Sturluson. 4 vols. SUGNL 23. Copenhagen: Møller.
  9. Internal references
  10. Valgerður Erna Þorvaldsdóttir (ed.) 2009, ‘Sturla Þórðarson, Hrynhenda 2’ 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. 679.

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