[3-4] getum hrœra hornstraum Hrímnis ‘we [I] can stir the horn-stream of Hrímnir <giant> [POETRY]’: In other words, ‘I am able to compose poetry’. The kenning, like most poetry-kennings, refers to the myth of the origin of the mead of poetry (see SnE 1998, I, 3-5).
References
- Bibliography
- SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.