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Bragi Þórr 1III

Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Bragi inn gamli Boddason, Þórr’s fishing 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. 47.

Bragi inn gamli BoddasonÞórr’s fishing
12

text and translation

Þat erumk sent, at snemma
sonr Aldafǫðrs vildi
afls við úri þafðan
jarðar reist of freista.

Þat erumk sent, at {sonr {Aldafǫðrs}} vildi snemma of freista afls við {reist jarðar}, þafðan úri.
 
‘It is conveyed to me that the son of mankind’s father [= Óðinn > = Þórr] soon wanted to try his strength against the twisted thing of the earth [= Miðgarðsormr], pounded by water.

notes and context

The six half-stanzas about Þórr’s fishing expedition are cited in mss of Skm as examples of kennings for Óðinn (st. 1), Þórr (sts 2, 3, 4), ‘poison’ (‘drink of the Vǫlsungar’, st. 5) and ‘wave’ (st. 6), found in R in that order but not as a continuous sequence. Stanza 1 is quoted as one of a number of stanzas that exemplify kennings for Óðinn, in this case Aldafǫðr ‘father of mankind’. It is introduced by the clause Svá kvað Bragi ‘Thus spoke Bragi’.

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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: Bragi enn gamli, 1. Ragnarsdrápa 14: AI, 3, BI, 3, Skald I, 2; SnE 1848-87, I, 242-5, II, 305, 520, III, 9, SnE 1931, 91, SnE 1998, I, 11.

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