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Note to Eil Þdr 9III

[5-8]: The subject of the sentence, hrǫnn ‘wave’, and the giantess-kenning runkykva ‘of the quickeners of the stream’ each need to be qualified by a term for ‘mountain’. Available are áss ‘of the ridge’ (l. 8) and hauðrs skafls jarðar ‘of the land of the snow-drift of the earth’ (ll. 6, 7); either combination is possible. The present edn combines hrǫnn with áss into a kenning for ‘river’ and takes runkykva with hauðrs skafls jarðar to form the giantess-kenning (see Note to l. 6). This arrangement is motivated by the somewhat simpler word order it produces. Finnur Jónsson (1900b, 386; Skj B), on the other hand, construes hrǫnn skafls jarðar ‘the wave of the snow-drift of the earth [RIDGE > RIVER]’ and áss hauðrs rúmbyggva ‘place-dweller of the land of the ridge [MOUNTAIN > CAVE > GIANTS]’, the latter by emendation.

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. Finnur Jónsson. 1900b. ‘Þórsdrápa Eilífs Goðrúnarsonar’. Oversigt over det Kgl. Danske videnskabernes selskabs forhandlinger 1900, 369-410.

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