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Note to Bragi Þórr 3III

[3] Ǫflugbarða ‘of Ǫflugbarði <giant>’: Although unattested in poetry (while its f. counterpart Ǫflugbarða appears in a þula of names for troll-women, Þul Trollkvenna 4/1), this word is here understood as the name of a male giant (lit. ‘mightily bearded one’), which forms part of a kenning for Þórr as the conventional adversary of giants. Skj B and Skald emend to the f. noun ǫflugbǫrðu, though m. giant names ending in ‑barði exist (e.g. Þistilbarði lit. ‘thistle-bearded one’, Þul Jǫtna I 2/8).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
  3. Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  4. Internal references
  5. Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Trollkvenna heiti 4’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 729.

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