[3] Fenrisulfr ‘the wolf Fenrir’: The release of the wolf marks Ragnarǫk and the end of the world: see Note to Anon Eirm 7/4, and SnE 2005, 27-9 for the binding of Fenrir. Magnus Olsen (1945b, 185) argued that the reference to the release of Fenrir is intended more specifically to invite comparison of Hákon góði to Baldr inn góði, before whose death there were no feiknstafir ‘afflictions’ (compare the hard times described in the next stanza; on Baldr see Note to Anon Eirm 3/5).
References
- Bibliography
- SnE 2005 = Snorri Sturluson. 2005. Edda: Prologue and Gylfaginning. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2nd edn. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Olsen, Magnus. 1945b. ‘Skaldevers om nods-år nordenfjells’. In Festskrift til Konrad Nielsen på 70-årsdagen, 28. august 1945. Studia Septentrionalia 2. Oslo: Brøgger, 176-92.
- Internal references
- R. D. Fulk (ed.) 2012, ‘Anonymous Poems, Eiríksmál 3’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1008.
- R. D. Fulk (ed.) 2012, ‘Anonymous Poems, Eiríksmál 7’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1011.