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Hvala heiti — Þul HvalaIII

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Elena Gurevich 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Hvala heiti’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 857. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=3207> (accessed 27 April 2024)

 

This þula (Þul Hvala) contains heiti for ‘whales’. It is recorded in mss R (main ms.), Tˣ, C, A and B (and 744ˣ) of SnE. In mss A and B the þula has the chapter heading Hvala heiti ‘Names for whales’ (in A, as usual, written in red ink); the heading is illegible in R and omitted in Tˣ and C. In all mss, Þul Hvala is preceded by Þul Fiska and followed by Þul Skipa. Most of the whales whose heiti are enumerated in this þula are discussed and described in Konungs skuggsjá (Kgs, Holm-Olsen 1983, 15-17; see also Schnall 1994), but only four occur in poetry (i.e. hnísa, reyðr ‘porpoise, rorqual’, st. 1/3, 5; skeljungr, vǫgn ‘humpback, orca’, st. 2/3, 8). With the exception of reyðarkalfr ‘rorqual-calf’ (st. 1/5) all of these heiti are included in LaufE (LaufE 1979, 273, 351; mss papp10ˣ(42r-v), 2368ˣ(94), 743ˣ(74r)) in the same order as in the þula and following the R, Tˣ, C redaction (with one exception; see Note to st. 2/1 below). They are also found (with translation and commentary in Latin and Danish) in RE 1665(Ff 3). Neither of these versions has been considered in the present edition.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. LaufE 1979 = Faulkes, Anthony, ed. 1979. Edda Magnúsar Ólafssonar (Laufás Edda). RSÁM 13. Vol. I of Two Versions of Snorra Edda from the 17th Century. Reykjavík: Stofnun Árna Magnússonar, 1977-9.
  3. Holm-Olsen, Ludvig, ed. 1983. Konungs skuggsiá. 2nd rev. edn. Norrøne tekster 1. Oslo: Norsk historisk kjeldeskrift-institutt.
  4. Schnall, Uwe. 1994. ‘Die Wal-Liste des altnordischen “Königsspiegels”: Ein zweckbestimmtes Klassifikations- und Beschreibungsmodell natürlicher Phänomene im Mittelalter’. Deutsches Schiffahrtsarchiv: Wissenschaftliches Jahrbuch des Deutschen Schiffahrtsmuseums 17, 239-52.
  5. Internal references
  6. 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].
  7. Elena Gurevich 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Fiska heiti’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 852. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=3206> (accessed 27 April 2024)
  8. Elena Gurevich 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Skipa heiti’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 861. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=3208> (accessed 27 April 2024)
  9. Not published: do not cite ()
  10. (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 27 April 2024)
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