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Þul Ása I 1III

Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Ása heiti I 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. 754.

Anonymous ÞulurÁsa heiti I1

text and translation

Burir ’ro Óðins         Baldr ok Meili,
Víðarr ok Nepr,         Váli, Áli,
Þórr ok Hildolfr,         Hermóðr, Sigi,
Skjǫldr, Yngvi-Freyr         ok Ítreksjóð,
Heimdallr, Sæmingr,         Hǫðr ok Bragi.

Burir Óðins ’ro Baldr ok Meili, Víðarr ok Nepr, Váli, Áli, Þórr ok Hildolfr, Hermóðr, Sigi, Skjǫldr, Yngvi-Freyr ok Ítreksjóð, Heimdallr, Sæmingr, Hǫðr ok Bragi.
 
‘Óðinn’s sons are Baldr and Meili, Víðarr and Nepr, Váli, Áli, Þórr and Hildólfr, Hermóðr, Sigi, Skjǫldr, Yngvi-Freyr and Ítrekr’s offspring, Heimdallr, Sæmingr, Hǫðr and Bragi.

notes and context

Of the seventeen names of the supernatural beings listed in this stanza only four occur in skaldic poetry as base-words in kennings for ‘man’. Other than Baldr (l. 2), which appears frequently in this type of kenning, these are Váli (l. 4), Hermóðr (l. 6) and Hǫðr (l. 10). For a discussion of this þula and the corresponding sections in Skm (SnE 1998, I, 19-20), see Gade (2006). — [7-8]: Kock (NN §2565A; Skald) rearranges these lines as Ingvifreyr, Skjǫldr  | ok Ítreksjóð for metrical reasons (see Note to l. 5 above), but that change results in an unmetrical l. 7. — [10]: This line is recorded in mss A and B only. Either it was excluded from the list by a later compiler to avoid repetition (both names are mentioned in Þul Ása II  ll. 8-9) or, as seems more likely, the line was added in the exemplar of A and B to complete the defective long-line.

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Text is based on reconstruction from the base text and variant apparatus and may contain alternative spellings and other normalisations not visible in the manuscript text. Transcriptions may not have been checked and should not be cited.

editions and texts

Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XII], IV. e. Ása heiti (I): AI, 657, BI, 660, Skald I, 325, NN §2565A; SnE 1848-87, I, 553-4, II, 473, 556, 616, SnE 1931, 196, SnE 1998, I, 113.

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