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Note to Guðl Lv 1III

[3] hyrgœði hríðar ‘the increaser of the fire of battle [(lit. ‘fire-increaser of battle’) SWORD > WARRIOR]’: Sveinbjörn Egilsson (SnE 1848, 188) and most subsequent eds emend hyr- to hjǫr- ‘sword-’ to create a battle-kenning; however, hríð can refer to battle by itself (cf. Þul Orrostu 2/7), and can therefore function as a determinant in a sword-kenning, as Kock intimates (NN §994). However, it is possible that, by citing the kenning as cacosyntheton, Óláfr himself considered the kenning as a whole incorrect, rather than the inverted arrangement of its elements.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. SnE 1848 = Sveinbjörn Egilsson, ed. 1848. Edda Snorra Sturlusonar, eða Gylfaginning, Skáldskaparmál og Háttatal. Reykjavík: Prentsmiðja landsins.
  3. NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  4. Internal references
  5. Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Orrostu heiti 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. 788.

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