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.
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. ’
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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Burir ’ro Óðins
Baldr ok Meili,
Víðarr ok Nepr,
Váli, Áli,
Þórr ok Hildolfr,
Hermóðr, siggi,
Skjǫldr, †ok ø̨lldnír†-
ok Ítreksjóð,
Heimdallr, Sæmingr,
Hǫðr ok Bragi.
Bvrirro oðins balldr ok mæili viðaʀ heiti sona oðins | ok næpr vali áli þóʀr ok hilldolfr hermoðr siggi skiø̨lldr ok ø̨lldnir ok | itræks ioð . hæimdallr sæmingr hø̨ðr ok bragi .
(VEÞ)
†[…]vrir† ’ro †oden[…]†
†ba[…]† Meili,
†vid[…]† ok †nefirr†,
Váli, †a[…]†,
†[…]rr† ok †hilldol[…]†,
Hermóðr, siggi,
†[…]io᷎lldr†, ok ǫlnir-
ok Ítreksjóð,
Heimdallr, Sæmingr,
†hau[…] ok br[…]† .
[...]vrírro oden[...] ba[...] meilí vid[...] ok nefirr valí a[...]ʀr ok hilldol[...] Heiti s[...] odens . | hermodr siggi ok [...]io᷎lldr ok o᷎lnir ok jtreks od . Heimdallr | se᷎míngr hau[...] ok br[...]
(VEÞ)
†Bvrír† ’ro †oðens†
†balldr ok† Meili,
†vidarr† ok Nepr,
Váli, †alí†,
†þorr† ok †hilldolfr†,
Hermóðr, Sigi,
†skio᷎lldr†, Yngvi-Freyr
ok Ítreksjóð,
Heimdallr, Sæmingr,
†haudr ok bragi† .
Burir ’eru Óðins
Baldr ok Meili,
Víðarr ok Nepr,
†voli†, †ǫli†,
Þórr ok Hildolfr,
Hermóðr, Sigi,
Skjǫldr, Yngvi-Freyr
ok Ítreksjóð,
Heimdallr, Sæmingr,
Hǫðr ok Bragi.
Bvrir erv oþins baldr ok meili viþaʀ ok nepr voli ǫli . þoʀ ok hildolfr | hermoðr sigi skioldr yngvifreyr ok itreks ioð heimdallr sæmingr. |
(VEÞ)
Burir ’ro Óðins
Baldr ok Meili,
Víðarr ok Nepr,
†voli†, †oli†,
Þórr Hildolfr,
Hermóðr, Sigi,
Skjǫldr, Yngvi-Freyr
Ítreksjóð,
Heimdallr, Sæmingr,
Hǫðr ok Bragi.
Burir ’eru Óðins
Baldr ok †meli†,
Víðarr ok †nefr†,
Váli, Áli,
Þórr ok Hildolfr,
Hermóðr, Sigi,
Skjǫldr, Yngvi-Freyr
ok Ítreksjóð,
Heim-baldr, Sæmingr,
Hǫðr ok Bragi.
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