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Note to HSt Frag 2III

[1] hilmir holmleggjar ‘the ruler of the island-bone [ROCK > DWARF = Litr (litr ‘colour’)]’: The kenning is an ofljóst construction based on the homonymy of the pers. n. Litr (dwarf-name, cf. Note to Þul Dverga 6/2) and the noun litr ‘colour, hue’ (TGT 1884, 198-9). In the context of the stanza litr refers to the appearance (Fritzner: litr 3) and beauty of a woman. Holmleggjar is formed according to the kenning pattern ‘bone of the earth’ for ‘stone’.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. TGT 1884 = Björn Magnússon Ólsen, ed. 1884. Den tredje og fjærde grammatiske afhandling i Snorres Edda tilligemed de grammatiske afhandlingers prolog og to andre tillæg. SUGNL 12. Copenhagen: Knudtzon.
  3. Fritzner = Fritzner, Johan. 1883-96. Ordbog over det gamle norske sprog. 3 vols. Kristiania (Oslo): Den norske forlagsforening. 4th edn. Rpt. 1973. Oslo etc.: Universitetsforlaget.
  4. Internal references
  5. Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Dverga heiti 6’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 704.

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