[1, 2] réð beðju Þundar ‘ruled the bedmate of Þundr <= Óðinn> [= Jǫrð (jǫrð ‘earth’)]’: For the imagery of a ruler taking or governing the land (represented by a kenning for the earth conceived of as a woman), see sts 17, 23 and 42 below. See also Hfr HákdrIII, Notes to ÞjóðA Sex 3/3 and 3/6 and Frank 1978, 63-5.
References
- Bibliography
- Frank, Roberta. 1978. Old Norse Court Poetry: The Dróttkvætt Stanza. Islandica 42. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.
- Internal references
- Kate Heslop 2017, ‘ Hallfreðr vandræðaskáld Óttarsson, Hákonardrápa’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 212. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1257> (accessed 26 April 2024)
- Diana Whaley (ed.) 2009, ‘Þjóðólfr Arnórsson, Sexstefja 3’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 114-16.