Atli Ól 1III
R. D. Fulk (ed.) 2017, ‘Atli litli, Poem about Óláfr kyrri 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. 16.
Øx rýzk — eisur vaxa —
(allmǫrg) — loga hallir —
(hús brenna) — gim geisar —
— góðmenni fellr — blóði.
Øx rýzk blóði, eisur vaxa, allmǫrg hús brenna, hallir loga, gim geisar, góðmenni fellr.
An axe is reddened with blood, embers proliferate, very many buildings burn, halls blaze, fire rages, a good man falls.
Mss: R(38v), Tˣ(40v), U(40v) (ll. 1-2), A(13v), B(6r), 744ˣ(38r), C(8r) (SnE)
Readings: [1] Øx: ‘Oxv’ U, ‘Vggs’ C; rýzk: ok U [2] ‑mǫrg: mjǫk B; hallir: hallar U, ‘hall[…]’ B, ‘haller’ 744ˣ [4] fellr blóði: ‘[…]’ B, ‘fellr blode’ 744ˣ
Editions: Skj AI, 413, Skj BI, 383, Skald I, 190, NN §896; SnE 1848-87, I, 506-9, II, 354, 454, 537, 602, III, 106, SnE 1848, 102, SnE 1931, 178, SnE 1998, I, 98.
Context: The helmingr is cited among several illustrating poetic terms for ‘fire’.
Notes: [All]: Kock (NN §896), attempting to make the word order less disjointed, construes blóði ‘blood’ (l. 4) with fellr ‘falls’ (l. 4) (hence ‘falls in blood’), and allmǫrg ‘very many’ (l. 2) with øx ‘axe’ (l. 1), hence ‘very many an axe’. — [1] rýzk ‘is reddened’: The inf. is rjóðask. — [3] gim ‘fire’: The word is perhaps a borrowing of OE gimm (from Lat. gemma) ‘gem’ (cf. ON gimsteinn ‘gem’, based on OE gimstān), though the word is never unambiguously used to mean ‘gem’ in Old Norse, only ‘fire’ (and it is never used in prose). Possibly instead the word reflects *ga-im (related to eimr and eimi ‘vapour’; see AEW: gim). See also Note to Þul Elds 1/1.
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.
- SnE 1848 = Sveinbjörn Egilsson, ed. 1848. Edda Snorra Sturlusonar, eða Gylfaginning, Skáldskaparmál og Háttatal. Reykjavík: Prentsmiðja landsins.
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- AEW = Vries, Jan de. 1962. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2nd rev. edn. Rpt. 1977. Leiden: Brill.
- 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 (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Elds 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. 921.
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