Note to Forað Lv 4VIII (Ket 24)
[All]: The prose passage immediately following this stanza provides the comment that Forað’s itinerary takes her along the whole length of Norway, as attested by the various place-names in the stanza: Angr (l. 1) is an arm of the Hardangerfjord, (see Þul Fjarða 1/3III and Note) but Finnur Jónsson (LP: 2. Angr) thinks that the name in this stanza refers to a fjord farther north (Varanger in Helgeland [= Varangerfjorden in northern Norway?]); Steig (Steigen, l. 2) is the name of a place on Engeløya on Vestfjorden in Nordland, Helgeland, Kǫrmt (l. 4) is Karmøy in Rogaland off the coast of western Norway, Jaðarr (Jæren, l. 5) is the southernmost part of the western coast of Norway and Útsteinn (l. 6) is on the island of Mosterøy in Boknafjorden in Rogaland; Elfr (l. 7) is the Old Norse name of the Götaälv river, which formed the borderland between Norway and Sweden in the Middle Ages (Nielsen et al. 1969, 201, 211; see LP under the various Old Norse place names).
References
- Bibliography
- LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
- Internal references
- Not published: do not cite (RunVI)
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Fjarða heiti 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 983.