Ása heiti I — Þul Ása IIII
Anonymous ÞulurElena Gurevich 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Ása heiti I’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 754. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=3187> (accessed 25 April 2024)
This þula (Þul Ása I) contains the names of the gods (the Æsir) who, according to the þula and Skm (SnE 1998, I, 14, 17, 19), are the sons of the god Óðinn (but see Gade 2006). It is recorded in mss R, Tˣ, C, A and B (and 744ˣ) of Skm (SnE). In the sequence of þulur in the R, Tˣ, C redaction it is preceded by Þul Þórs and followed by Þul Jǫtna II, while in mss A and B (and 744ˣ) it is preceded by Þul Óðins and followed by Þul Þórs (on the order of þulur in the two main groups of mss, see Introduction to Anon Þulur). The mss have the following chapter headings: Ása heiti ‘Names of the gods’ (C), ‘asa hetia’ (R), Heiti sona Óðins ‘Names of Óðinn’s sons’ (A and B (represented by 744ˣ), in the former as usual written in red ink), and Sonir Óðins ‘Óðinn’s sons’ (Tˣ). Half of the names enumerated in this þula are mentioned in Þul Ása II as well. These are Þórr (l. 5), Yngvi-Freyr (l. 7), Víðarr (l. 3), Baldr (l. 2), Váli (l. 4), Heimdallr (l. 9), Hǫðr and Bragi (l. 10). The latter two names are recorded only in A and B, while in the other group of mss the last line is omitted (see Introductions to Þul Þórs and Þul Ása II). Ms. A is therefore the main ms. for the present edition. Most of the names in this þula are recorded in LaufE (LaufE 1979, 257 Heite sona Ödins ‘Names of Óðinn’s sons’; 332 Syner Odins ‘Óðinn’s sons’) and the variants show that the þula was copied from A or from a ms. closely related to A. In A (and B) the þula is followed directly by Þul Þórs (see above and Introduction to Þul Þórs), and in LaufE the names enumerated in that þula were included erroneously in the present list among the names of Óðinn’s sons. Þul Ása I was copied from a ms. of LaufE in RE 1665(Cc3), including the Þórr-heiti as in LaufE. Neither LaufE nor RE 1665 has been considered in the present edition.
References
- Bibliography
- 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.
- SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Gade, Kari Ellen. 2006. ‘“Hǫðr … sonr Óðins” – but did Snorri know that?’. In McKinnell et al. 2006, I, 268-77.
- 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)
- Elena Gurevich 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Þórs 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. 758. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=3186> (accessed 25 April 2024)
- Elena Gurevich 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Jǫtna heiti II’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 718. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=3188> (accessed 25 April 2024)
- Elena Gurevich 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Ása heiti II’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 760. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=3189> (accessed 25 April 2024)
- Elena Gurevich 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Óðins nǫfn’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 731. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=3228> (accessed 25 April 2024)
- (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 25 April 2024)
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