Poem about Þórr — Þdís ÞórrIII
Þorbjǫrn dísarskáldMargaret Clunies Ross 2017, ‘ Þorbjǫrn dísarskáld, Poem about Þórr’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 470. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1427> (accessed 24 April 2024)
A couplet and a complete dróttkvætt stanza (Þdís Þórr), both probably from a poem celebrating the god Þórr’s powers over giants and giantesses, are recorded in Skm (SnE 1998, I, 16, 17) and attributed to Þorbjǫrn dísarskáld ‘Lady’s poet’. They are quoted along with other poets’ stanzas to exemplify ways of referring to Þórr. Stanza 2, like only two other recorded poems about Þórr (i.e. Bragi Frag 3, Vetrl Lv 1), addresses the god directly in the second person and lists a number of giantesses and giants he has killed (see Lindow 1988 for a discussion).
References
- Bibliography
- SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Lindow, John. 1988. ‘Addressing Thor’. SS 60, 119-36.
- Internal references
- (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 24 April 2024)
- Margaret Clunies Ross 2017, ‘(Biography of) Þorbjǫrn dísarskáld’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 470.
- Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Bragi inn gamli Boddason, Fragments 3’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 58.
- R. D. Fulk (ed.) 2017, ‘Vetrliði Sumarliðason, Lausavísa 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 425.
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