Note to Keth Lv 3VIII (Ket 5)
[4] hví skríðr þú svá ‘why do you glide thus’: The verb skríða is used three times in the exchange between Ketill and Gusi (Ket 3a, 4 and 5): with reference to Gusi’s movement down from the sledge (Ket 3a), to the movement of a wolf, referring to Ketill (Ket 4), who is on skis (cf. Ket 6), and to Gusi’s mode of transport (Ket 5). In all three stanzas the verb appears to be demeaning, most overtly in Ket 4, where Gusi compares Ketill to a wolf. In Ket 5 it refers to the Saami use of sledges drawn by reindeer (cf. Ket 3a) and may denigrate such a mode of transport.
References
- Internal references
- Beatrice La Farge (ed.) 2017, ‘Ketils saga hœngs 3 (Ketill hœngr, Lausavísur 2)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 553.
- Beatrice La Farge (ed.) 2017, ‘Ketils saga hœngs 4 (Gusi finnakonungr, Lausavísur 2)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 555.
- Beatrice La Farge (ed.) 2017, ‘Ketils saga hœngs 6 (Gusi finnakonungr, Lausavísur 3)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 557.
- Beatrice La Farge (ed.) 2017, ‘Ketils saga hœngs 5 (Ketill hœngr, Lausavísur 3)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 556.