Diana Whaley 2017, ‘ Þórálfr (-valdr), 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. 467. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1470> (accessed 29 March 2024)
The fragment (Þórálfr Frag) appears to depict an intervention by Óðinn in a battle, but its context, in terms of its source poem and the circumstances that gave rise to it, are as uncertain as the identity of the poet. The Hárekr named in the stanza cannot be identified, despite the relative rarity of the name (see Note to l. 4 below). The SnE mss used below are R (as main ms.), Tˣ, W, U, B.
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