[1-2] áðr djúphugaðr … dræpi dólga ‘before the deepminded … struck the enemies’: The opening of this stanza is identical with Þjóð Haustl 6/5. Although the subject of the narrative in Haustl 6 is Loki, not Þórr as here, this fragment has strong echoes of the helmingr in Haustl: there, Loki strikes a giant with a pole; here, Þórr strikes a giant with his hammer. The two helmingar contain the only examples in the corpus of a giant-kenning of the type ‘enemy of the land’ (dolgr vallar ‘enemy of the earth’ in Haustl 6/6).
References
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- Margaret Clunies Ross 2017, ‘ Þjóðólfr ór Hvini, Haustlǫng’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 431. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1438> (accessed 29 March 2024)
- Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Þjóðólfr ór Hvini, Haustlǫng 6’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 440.