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Þul Brynju 1III

Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Brynju 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. 831.

Anonymous ÞulurBrynju heiti1

text and translation

Brynja, kund, hjalmgǫll,         hrauð ok náin,
kǫld, Finnsleif,         …
bǫðfara, þýðsýn         ok blóðleika.

Brynja, kund, hjalmgǫll, hrauð ok náin, kǫld, Finnsleif … bǫðfara, þýðsýn ok blóðleika.
 
‘Mail-shirt, intimate friend, helmet-clang, covering one and near one, cold one, Finnsleif (‘Finnr’s legacy’) … battle-goer, pleasant-sight and blood-playmate.

notes and context

Except for brynja and Finnsleif, the names for ‘mail-shirt’ listed in this þula are not found elsewhere. All the terms are f., and some are sexualised and humanised. — [1-4]: Judging from alliteration in the surrounding text, l. 4 is missing, but none of the mss indicates a lacuna here. Moreover, ll. 1-3 in the mss are unmetrical (l. 1 is hypermetrical, and ll. 2-3 are hypometrical). The LaufE mss (LaufE 1979, 263, 339), which only list (normalised) hjalmgǫll, hrauð, Finnsleif and blóðleika, are of no help, and the additional heiti in RE 1665(Ee) (‘Brandfara’, ‘Thund’) do not fit the alliterative pattern. Kock (Skald; NN §§2565C, 2991E) rearranged the heiti in ll. 1-3 as follows (see also Note to l. 1 below): Kund, brynja, jalmgǫll, | kǫld, hrauð ok náin | Finnsleif. Kock’s emended version still leaves a missing half-line (l. 4) and does not obviate the metrical problems in ll. 1-3.

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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. t. Brynju heiti: AI, 668, BI, 666, Skald I, 330, NN §§847B, 2565C, 2991E; SnE 1848-87, I, 573, II, 479, 562, 622, SnE 1931, 204, SnE 1998, I, 123.       

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