Hafliðamál — Anon HaflIII
Anonymous PoemsTarrin Wills 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Hafliðamál’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 533. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1014> (accessed 1 May 2024)
The title of this ljóðaháttr fragment, Hafliðamál ‘The Speeches of Hafliði’ (Anon Hafl), is given in TGT (mss A (main ms.) and W). According to Björn Magnússon Ólsen (TGT 1884, 185-6), the title and subject-matter of the half-stanza (apparently a scene at the alþingi) seem to indicate that the specific subject is the legal dispute between Hafliði Másson and Þorgils Oddason in c. 1120, as recorded in Sturlunga saga (Stu). See Note to l. 1 for further discussion. Both Björn Magnússon Ólsen (TGT 1884, 185-6) and Finnur Jónsson (TGT 1927, 95-6) discuss the interpretation of this fragment at length.
References
- Bibliography
- TGT 1884 = Björn Magnússon Ólsen, ed. 1884. Den tredje og fjærde grammatiske afhandling i Snorres Edda tilligemed de grammatiske afhandlingers prolog og to andre tillæg. SUGNL 12. Copenhagen: Knudtzon.
- TGT 1927 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1927b. Óláfr Þórðarson: Málhljóða- og málskrúðsrit. Grammatisk-retorisk afhandling. Det kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab. Historisk-filologiske meddelelser 13, 2. Copenhagen: Høst.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Óláfr hvítaskáld Þórðarson, The Third Grammatical Treatise’ in Tarrin Wills (ed.), The Third Grammatical Treatise. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=32> (accessed 1 May 2024)
- (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Sturlunga saga’ in Guðrún Nordal (ed.), Poetry on Icelandic History. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 4. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=88> (accessed 1 May 2024)
- Not published: do not cite (ÞorgOIV)
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