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Þul Sverða 9III

Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Sverða heiti 9’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 806.

Anonymous ÞulurSverða heiti
8910

text and translation

Fellir, fǫlvir,         Fáfnir, raufnir,
ímnir, eimnir,         afspringr, þinurr,
sigðir, snyrtir,         svelgr, skarr ok nár,
Góinn, gest-Móinn         ok gárr, þrimarr, Níðhǫggr.

Fellir, fǫlvir, Fáfnir, raufnir, ímnir, eimnir, afspringr, þinurr, sigðir, snyrtir, svelgr, skarr ok nár, Góinn, gest-Móinn ok gárr, þrimarr, Níðhǫggr.
 
‘Feller, pale one, Fáfnir, piercer, battler, flamer, afspringr, fir, scythe, polisher, swallower, cutter and corpse, Góinn, guest-Móinn and rippled one, thunderer, Níðhǫggr.

notes and context

This stanza contains several names of serpents that are given as heiti for ‘sword’. The reason for this is probably that terms for and names of serpents occur frequently as base-words in sword-kennings (Meissner 153-4) — [3]: The C variant of this line, ymir ok eimir, has no support in the other ms. witnesses (for ymir lit. ‘noise-maker’, see Þul Hauks 2/1; eimir is probably the result of a scribal attempt to maintain the rhyme).

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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. l. Sverða heiti 9: AI, 664, BI, 664, Skald I, 328; SnE 1848-87, I, 567, II, 477, 560, 620, SnE 1931, 202, SnE 1998, I, 120.

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