[1, 4] grátr Mardallar ‘the tears of Mardǫll <= Freyja> [GOLD]’: Lit. ‘the weeping of Mardǫll’. According to Old Norse myth, the goddess Freyja wept tears of gold for her husband, Óðr (SnE 2005, 29): Óðr fór í braut langar leiðir, en Freyja grætr eptir, en tár hennar er gull rautt ‘Óðr went away on long journeys, and Freyja weeps for him, and her tear is red gold’. See also Note to Anon Bjark 5/6.
References
- Bibliography
- SnE 2005 = Snorri Sturluson. 2005. Edda: Prologue and Gylfaginning. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2nd edn. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Internal references
- Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Poems, Bjarkamál in fornu 5’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 502.