[5] tívi tvíviðar ‘the god of the bow [WARRIOR = Geirrøðr]’: Tvíviðr lit. means ‘double-wood’ (cf. Þul Boga l. 2) and refers to a bow put together from two pieces of wood (Sveinbjörn Egilsson 1851, 29; all subsequent eds). Finnur Jónsson (1900b, 399) sees a Þórr-kenning in the combination tollur tvíviðar, but Reichardt (1948, 387) rightly disputes this, because ‘of the bow’ makes good sense as a determinant in a kenning for Geirrøðr (so also Sveinbjörn Egilsson 1851, 29; Kiil 1956, 162) since Geirrøðr has already been described as œgir almtaugar ‘the terrifier of the bow-string [WARRIOR = Geirrøðr]’ (st. 16/5). Cf. also st. 12/7, in which ‘giants’ are referred to periphrastically as ‘relatives of the markswoman [= Skaði]’.
References
- Bibliography
- Finnur Jónsson. 1900b. ‘Þórsdrápa Eilífs Goðrúnarsonar’. Oversigt over det Kgl. Danske videnskabernes selskabs forhandlinger 1900, 369-410.
- Kiil, Vilhelm. 1956. ‘Eilífr Goðrúnarson’s Þórsdrápa’. ANF 71, 89-167.
- Reichardt, Konstantin. 1948. ‘Die Thórsdrápa des Eilífr Goðrúnarson: Textinterpretation’. PMLA 63, 329-91.
- Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 1851. Tvö brot af Haustlaung og Þórsdrápa. Reykjavík: Prentað á kostnað skólasjóðsins.
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Boga heiti’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 821. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=3199> (accessed 26 April 2024)