[9]: The repetition of the last l. is characteristic of prophetic sts, and such repetitions are a feature of the metre galdralag ‘incantation metre’ (SnSt Ht 101III; SnE 1999, 39, 74). In this particular case, the l. is syntactically incomplete (sveita ‘blood’ and Urðr of heitin ‘known as the Urðr’ belong to two different clauses in l. 8), but sveita ‘blood’ could be construed as a gen. qualifying Urðr (‘the Urðr of blood’). Urðr was one of the norns of fate in ON mythology (see SnE 2005, 18).
References
- Bibliography
- SnE 1999 = Snorri Sturluson. 1999. Edda: Háttatal. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. Rpt. with addenda and corrigenda. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- SnE 2005 = Snorri Sturluson. 2005. Edda: Prologue and Gylfaginning. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2nd edn. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Internal references
- Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Snorri Sturluson, Háttatal 101’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1209.