Fragment — Ggnæv FragIII
Gamli gnævaðarskáld
Margaret Clunies Ross 2017, ‘ Gamli gnævaðarskáld, Fragment’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 190. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1200> (accessed 25 April 2024)
A single
helmingr (
Ggnæv Frag) is all that survives of a presumably longer poem by Gamli in praise of an unknown ruler or nobleman. It is cited in that section of
Skm (
SnE 1998,
I, 103) listing a variety of terms for ‘king’ or ‘ruler’ that can be used in skaldic poetry. Here the term
ǫðlingr ‘ruler’ (l. 1) is the target. The
helmingr is extant in mss R,
Tˣ, U, A, B and C of
SnE. Ms. R is the main ms. The paper ms.
744ˣ has been consulted because B, its exemplar, has several lacunae produced by holes at this point.
References
- Bibliography
- SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Internal references
- 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].
- (forthcoming), ‘ Snorri Sturluson, Skáldskaparmál’ 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=112> (accessed 25 April 2024)
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