[4] alls ‘all the world’s’: LP (1860) and Rydberg 1907, 52 assign this phrase to kyn beima ‘race of men’ (l. 4), but it seems more suitable to hjálpar, i.e. (inclining pillar) ‘of all the world’s salvation’. (Heims and kyn beima are also rhymed in Has 20/6.)
References
- Bibliography
- LP (1860) = Sveinbjörn Egilsson, ed. 1860. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis. Copenhagen: Societas Regia antiquariorum septentrionalium.
- Rydberg, Hugo, ed. 1907. ‘Die geistlichen Drápur und Dróttkvættfragmente des Cod. AM 757 4to.’. Ph.D. thesis. University of Lund. Copenhagen: Møller.
- Internal references
- Katrina Attwood (ed.) 2007, ‘Gamli kanóki, Harmsól 20’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 90-1.