Note to Anon Krm 4VIII
[2] kvánar Heðins ‘the woman of Heðinn <legendary hero> [= Hildr (hildr ‘battle’)]’: The allusion is to Hildr, the legendary instigator of the everlasting fight between her abductor, Heðinn Hjarrandason, and her father Hǫgni; the story of the fight, known as Hjaðningavíg ‘the battle of Heðinn’s followers’, is told in Skm (SnE 1998, I, 72), and is alluded to in RvHbreiðm Hl 45-6III and elsewhere (see Chesnutt 1968, 130-1; cf. also Gizsv Lv/6I and Hfr ErfÓl 24/4I). Cf. Note to st. 10/7 and first Note to st. 13/4 below. The name Hildr also occurs as a valkyrie-name and as a poetic common noun for ‘battle’. Through the device ofljóst, lit. ‘excessively clear’, the kenning for Hildr is to be understood here as ‘battle’.
References
- Bibliography
- SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Chesnutt, Michael. 1968. ‘An Unsolved Problem in Old Norse-Icelandic Literary History’. MS 1, 122-37.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Snorri Sturluson, Skáldskaparmál’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=112> (accessed 27 April 2024)
- Kari Ellen Gade 2017, ‘ Rǫgnvaldr jarl and Hallr Þórarinsson, Háttalykill’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1001. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1347> (accessed 27 April 2024)
- Kate Heslop (ed.) 2012, ‘Hallfreðr vandræðaskáld Óttarsson, Erfidrápa Óláfs Tryggvasonar 24’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 434.