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Þul Orrostu 2III

Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Orrostu heiti 2’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 788.

Anonymous ÞulurOrrostu heiti
12

text and translation

Sóta, morð ok víg,         sókn ok íð,
dolg, ógn, tara,         drima ok ímun,
þá es orrosta,         ok ørlygi,
hríð ok etja,         Herþǫgn, þrima.

Sóta, morð ok víg, sókn ok íð, dolg, ógn, tara, drima ok ímun, þá es orrosta, ok ørlygi, hríð ok etja, Herþǫgn, þrima.
 
‘Struggle, killing and slaughter, assault and deed, enmity, terror, combat, noise and onslaught, then there is battle, and doom, storm and agression, Herþǫgn, din.

notes and context

[2]: Skj B (followed by Skald) combines the readings of the R, , C and A, B redactions and renders this line as sókn, dolg ok ógn ‘assault, enmity and terror’. Ms. A reads (normalised) sótti dolg ógn ‘attacked enmity terror’, and ms. B has dolg ógn, as do the LaufE mss (spelled as one word). Hence it appears that the scribe of A may have added sótti to provide the necessary alliteration, or else the word could have been present in his exemplar but in the form of a marginal gloss or correction. — [3]: This line is given as dynr, gnýr, tara ‘din, clash, combat’ in Skj B and Skald, following A (B has ok dynr gnýr tara).

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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. k. Orrostu heiti 2: AI, 662, BI, 663, Skald I, 327, NN §§995, 3138; SnE 1848-87, I, 563, II, 475-6, 559, 619, SnE 1931, 200, SnE 1998, I, 118.

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