[2] farmr arma Sigvinjar ‘the cargo of the arms [LOVER] of Sigyn <goddess> [= Loki]’: Sigyn was Loki’s wife (cf. SnE 2005, 27); there are a number of similarly formed kennings for the wives or mistresses of supernatural figures in the skaldic corpus (cf. Meissner 252-3, 255). The reference to Sigyn here may well be a pointed one; see the following Note and Holtsmark (1949, 26). The more archaic form of the name (Sigvinjar rather than Sigynjar) is required by the metre (see Note to Bragi Rdr 2/3-4).
References
- Bibliography
- Meissner = Meissner, Rudolf. 1921. Die Kenningar der Skalden: Ein Beitrag zur skaldischen Poetik. Rheinische Beiträge und Hülfsbücher zur germanischen Philologie und Volkskunde 1. Bonn and Leipzig: Schroeder. Rpt. 1984. Hildesheim etc.: Olms.
- SnE 2005 = Snorri Sturluson. 2005. Edda: Prologue and Gylfaginning. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2nd edn. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Holtsmark, Anne. 1949. ‘Myten om Idun og Tjatse i Tjodolvs Haustlǫng’. ANF 64, 1-73.
- Internal references
- Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Bragi inn gamli Boddason, Ragnarsdrápa 2’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 30.