Note to Anon Krm 5VIII
[5] öndrum ægis ‘with skis of the sea [SHIPS]’: Here ægis is not the name of the sea-giant Ægir, seeing that sea-kings rather than giants form the determinants of ship-kennings, but is the common noun ægis ‘of the sea’, as understood by Finnur Jónsson (1893b; 1905; Skj B). Mss 1824b and 6ˣ have Egils instead of Ægis, but Egill is not recorded as a sea-king name (cf. Björn Sigfússon 1934). Rafn (1826), Pfeiffer (1860), the eds of CPB, Krm 1891 and Wisén (1886-9) nevertheless all read Egils here. Alone among previous eds, Kock (NN §2274) substitutes Ekkils, gen. sg. of Ekkill, an acceptable sea-king name (Björn Sigfússon 1934, 128), and de Vries (1964-7, II, 40 n. 68), apparently accepting this reading, cites as a parallel Sigv Austv 10/5, 7I hestar Ekkils ‘the horses of Ekkill <sea-king> [SHIPS]’, while also citing Eskál Lv 2a/7-8I andra (acc. pl. of ǫndurr ‘ski’) Endils ‘the skis of Endill <sea-king> [SHIPS]’. However, emendation is unnecessary.
References
- Bibliography
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- Björn Sigfússon. 1934. ‘Names of Sea-Kings (heiti sækonunga)’. MP 32, 125-42.
- Krm 1891 = 2nd edn (pp. 225-8) of Krm as ed. in Valdimar Ásmundarson 1885-9, I.
- Rafn, Carl Christian, ed. 1826. Krakas Maal eller Kvad om Kong Ragnar Lodbroks Krigsbedrifter og Heltedød efter en gammel Skindbog og flere hidtil ubenyttede Haandskrifter med dansk, latinsk og fransk oversættelse, forskjellige Læsemaader, samt kritiske og philologiske Anmærkninger. Copenhagen: Jens Hostrup Schultz; London: John and Arthur Arch.
- Internal references
- R. D. Fulk (ed.) 2012, ‘Sigvatr Þórðarson, Austrfararvísur 10’ 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. 597.