Note to Eil Þdr 9^III

[2, 3] eiðsvara víkingar ‘the oath-bound vikings’: Þórr and Þjálfi are called vikings, which can be explained by the fact that, throughout the poem, warrior-kennings are used for them (see Introduction). The oath probably refers to a pact among the members of a group, in this case Þórr and Þjálfi, and not to an oath sworn to a lord (see Köbler 1986, 539-41). Since there is no evidence of an actual oath between Þórr and his companion, the adj. could perhaps be an epitheton ornans deriving from the ideas about groups of vikings bound by oaths.

References

Bibliography
Köbler, Gerhard. 1986. ‘Eid. §3 Rechtshistorisches’. In RGA, 6, 539-42.

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