[3] vá ek at fiski foldar ‘I attacked the fish of the earth [SNAKE]’: It is not necessary to follow CPB and Kock (NN §1448; Skald) in treating this line on its own as an intercalary clause, with the adverbial phrase vetra … fimtán gamall ‘at the age of fifteen’ modifying Hætt hefi ek ‘I have risked’ rather than vá ek ‘I attacked’, but such a reading is perfectly possible. Kock refers in this context to Glúmr Gráf 4/6-8I, which seems to justify the reading offered here.
References
- Bibliography
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- CPB = Gudbrand Vigfusson [Guðbrandur Vigfússon] and F. York Powell, eds. 1883. Corpus poeticum boreale: The Poetry of the Old Northern Tongue from the Earliest Times to the Thirteenth Century. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon. Rpt. 1965, New York: Russell & Russell.
- Internal references
- Alison Finlay (ed.) 2012, ‘Glúmr Geirason, Gráfeldardrápa 4’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 252.