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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Anon Sól 77VII

[1] Óðins kván ‘Óðinn’s wife’: Frigg, or conceivably Freyja, as Björn M. Ólsen (1915, 59) and Paasche (1914a, 158) suggest. Both goddesses are associated with Venus in homiletic writing, both in ON and OE, symbolising sexual desire. Ælfric of Eynsham names Frigg as þære sceamleasan gydenan ‘the shameless goddess’ (Pope 1967-8, 686); Freyja is noted as Freyja portkona ‘Freyja the whore’ in Heilagra manna søgur (Unger 1877, I, 417; II, 233).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Unger, C. R., ed. 1877. Heilagra manna søgur. Fortællinger og legender om hellige mænd og kvinder. 2 vols. Christiania (Oslo): Bentzen.
  3. Björn Magnússon Ólsen, ed. 1915a. Sólarljóð: gefin út með skíringum og athugasemdum. Safn til sögu Íslands og íslenzkra bókmenta 5.1. Reykjavík: Prentsmiðja Gutenberg.
  4. Paasche, Fredrik. 1914. Kristendom og kvad: En studie i norrøn middelalder. Christiania (Oslo): Aschehoug. Rpt. in Paasche 1948, 29-212.

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