[7] með kvern góma ‘with the hand-mill of the gums [TEETH]’: One of a relatively small number of skaldic kennings for the teeth (Meissner 133), often found with the determinant gómr ‘roof or floor of the mouth, gums’; cf. VSt Erf 1/3III sker góma ‘skerries of the gums’, Sturl Hákkv 29/3II gómsker ‘the gum-skerries’. Ms. 1006ˣ substitutes knífum ‘knives’ for kvern, and this is followed by FSN and FSGJ, although it makes the line unmetrical.
References
- Bibliography
- FSN = Rafn, Carl Christian, ed. 1829-30. Fornaldar sögur nordrlanda. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Popp.
- 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.
- FSGJ = Guðni Jónsson, ed. 1954. Fornaldar sögur norðurlanda. 4 vols. [Reykjavík]: Íslendingasagnaútgáfan.
- Internal references
- Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Sturla Þórðarson, Hákonarkviða 29’ 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. 721.
- Edith Marold (ed.) 2017, ‘Vǫlu-Steinn, Ǫgmundardrápa 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 428.