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Morginsól — Anon MorgIII

Anonymous Poems

Margaret Clunies Ross 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Morginsól’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 510. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1030> (accessed 2 May 2024)

 

Nothing is known of the anonymous poem Morginsól ‘Morning Sun’ (Anon Morg) beyond its attractive name, which, together with its one surviving helmingr, indicates that its subject was love for a beautiful woman. The poem’s title, and the helmingr itself, are among the verses preserved in the part of SnE extant only in W, the main ms. for this edition. It was copied from W by Magnús Ólafsson in LaufE and is found in the Y version of LaufE (represented here by mss 2368ˣ and 743ˣ). The metre of the helmingr is dróttkvætt. Finnur Jónsson (Skj) dated the fragment tentatively to the twelfth century, although it could be earlier or a little later.

References

  1. Internal references
  2. Edith Marold 2017, ‘Snorra Edda (Prologue, Gylfaginning, Skáldskaparmál)’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols [check printed volume for citation].
  3. (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Laufás Edda’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=10928> (accessed 2 May 2024)
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