[2] með karli ‘with the old fellow’: A reference to the giant Hymir, who accompanied Þórr on his fishing expedition, according to several sources; for the variants, see Meulengracht Sørensen (1986). When Hymir is mentioned in Old Norse poetry, the treatment tends to have a comic edge, as here and in ÚlfrU Húsdr 5/1-2.
References
- Bibliography
- Meulengracht Sørensen, Preben. 1986. ‘Thor’s Fishing Expedition’. In Steinsland 1986a, 257-78. Rpt. in Acker and Larrington 2002, 119-37.
- Internal references
- Edith Marold (ed.) 2017, ‘Úlfr Uggason, Húsdrápa 5’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 414.