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EVald Þórr 1III

Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Eysteinn Valdason, Poem about Þórr 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. 185.

Eysteinn ValdasonPoem about Þórr
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text and translation

Sín bjó Sifjar rúni
snarla framm með karli
— hornstraum getum Hrímnis
hrœra — veiðarfœri.

{Rúni Sifjar} bjó snarla framm veiðarfœri sín með karli; getum hrœra {hornstraum Hrímnis}.
 
‘The confidant of Sif <goddess> [= Þórr] quickly brought out his fishing gear with the old fellow; we [I] can stir the horn-stream of Hrímnir <giant> [POETRY].

notes and context

The ordering of stanzas in this edn, as in Skj and Skald, is different from the order in which they are quoted in mss of SnE. In the mss that have what is here numbered st. 2 (R, W, U), it comes before st. 1, while st. 3 comes last in each case. The editorial reordering is based on narrative plausibility and is perhaps supported by the poet’s comment here on his own compositional powers, though, in the absence of the whole of EVald Þórr, this cannot be regarded as a firm guide to the order of stanzas. — [3]: This odd Type A2k-line is rare and archaic (see Kuhn 1983, 140; Gade 1995a, 140). Together with the heathen content of the poem, this metrical feature suggests an early date of composition.

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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: Eysteinn Valdason, Et digt om Tor 1: AI, 140, BI, 131, Skald I, 72, NN §318; SnE 1848-87, I, 254-5, II, 309, III, 16, SnE 1931, 95, SnE 1998, I, 15.

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