Þul Vápna 1III
Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Vápna heiti 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. 822.
Enn kveð ek heita ǫll vápn saman
járn, ǫr ok slǫg, ísarn ok spjǫr.
Enn kveð ek ǫll vápn saman heita járn, ǫr ok slǫg, ísarn ok spjǫr.
Further, I say that all weapons together are called irons, arrow and strikes, iron and spears.
Mss: R(43r), Tˣ(45r), C(12v), A(19r), B(8v) (SnE)
Readings: [1] heita: hittask C [3] slǫg: spjǫr A [4] ísarn: ‘san’ B; ok: om. A, B; spjǫr: ‑slǫg A
Editions: Skj AI, 666, Skj BI, 665, Skald I, 329; SnE 1848-87, I, 571, II, 478, 561, 621, SnE 1931, 204, SnE 1998, I, 122.
Notes: [3, 4] járn … ísarn ‘irons … iron’: The þula distinguishes between the common term for ‘iron’, járn n. (in the pl. this word means ‘weapons’) and the poetic variant ísarn. The latter is a loanword from West Germanic (cf. OE īsern, OHG īsarn ‘iron’). — [3] slǫg (n. pl.) ‘strikes’: This is the pl. of slag ‘blow, stroke’, which is used in poetry for weapons as instruments intended to deliver blows. — [4] spjǫr (n. pl.) ‘spears’: The word is attested only in the pl. It is also listed among the heiti for ‘spear’ in Þul Spjóts l. 5.
References
- Bibliography
- SnE 1848-87 = Snorri Sturluson. 1848-87. Edda Snorra Sturlusonar: Edda Snorronis Sturlaei. Ed. Jón Sigurðsson et al. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Legatum Arnamagnaeanum. Rpt. Osnabrück: Zeller, 1966.
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- SnE 1931 = Snorri Sturluson. 1931. Edda Snorra Sturlusonar. Ed. Finnur Jónsson. Copenhagen: Gyldendal.
- SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Spjóts 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. 816. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=3197> (accessed 5 May 2024)
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