Cookies on our website

We use cookies on this website, mainly to provide a secure browsing experience but also to collect statistics on how the website is used. You can find out more about the cookies we set, the information we store and how we use it on the cookies page.

Continue

skaldic

Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

Menu Search

Note to ÞjJ Lv 2VIII (ÞJ 2)

[4] hæli ‘woman’: Emended from ms. hæla. This could be the inf. of the verb hæla ‘praise’, but that is difficult to accommodate syntactically here, as hæla takes the dat. of the object praised. Hæli is here understood as dat. sg. of the m. noun hæll, whose usual sense is ‘heel’, but for which an alternative meaning ‘woman, widow’ has been recorded (cf. Þul Kvenna I 1/7III and Note; Anon Stríðk 1III, first Note to l. 8).

References

  1. Internal references
  2. Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Poems, Stríðkeravísur 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 628.
  3. Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Kvenna heiti 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 772.

Close

Log in

This service is only available to members of the relevant projects, and to purchasers of the skaldic volumes published by Brepols.
This service uses cookies. By logging in you agree to the use of cookies on your browser.

Close