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.
bjó ‘brought’
notes
[1, 2] bjó snarla framm ‘quickly brought out’: It would also be possible to construe framm with the intercalary clause as Skj B does, getum hrœra framm hornstraum Hrímnis ‘we [I] can advance the horn-stream of Hrímnir [POETRY]’, although this results in unnecessarily fractured syntax (cf. NN §318).
Sifjar ‘of Sif’
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2. Sif (noun f.): Sif
kennings
Rúni Sifjar‘The confidant of Sif ’
= Þórr
The confidant of Sif → Þórr
rúni ‘The confidant’
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rúni (noun m.; °; -ar): confidant
kennings
Rúni Sifjar‘The confidant of Sif ’
= Þórr
The confidant of Sif → Þórr
snarla ‘quickly’
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1. snarla (adv.): quickly
notes
[1, 2] bjó snarla framm ‘quickly brought out’: It would also be possible to construe framm with the intercalary clause as Skj B does, getum hrœra framm hornstraum Hrímnis ‘we [I] can advance the horn-stream of Hrímnir [POETRY]’, although this results in unnecessarily fractured syntax (cf. NN §318).
framm ‘out’
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fram (adv.): out, forth, forwards, away
notes
[1, 2] bjó snarla framm ‘quickly brought out’: It would also be possible to construe framm with the intercalary clause as Skj B does, getum hrœra framm hornstraum Hrímnis ‘we [I] can advance the horn-stream of Hrímnir [POETRY]’, although this results in unnecessarily fractured syntax (cf. NN §318).
notes
[2] með karli ‘with the old fellow’: A reference to the giant Hymir, who accompanied Þórr on his fishing expedition, according to several sources; for the variants, see Meulengracht Sørensen (1986). When Hymir is mentioned in Old Norse poetry, the treatment tends to have a comic edge, as here and in ÚlfrU Húsdr 5/1-2.
karli ‘the old fellow’
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karl (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): (old) man
notes
[2] með karli ‘with the old fellow’: A reference to the giant Hymir, who accompanied Þórr on his fishing expedition, according to several sources; for the variants, see Meulengracht Sørensen (1986). When Hymir is mentioned in Old Norse poetry, the treatment tends to have a comic edge, as here and in ÚlfrU Húsdr 5/1-2.
horn ‘the horn’
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horn (noun n.; °-s; -): horn < hornstraumr (noun m.)
kennings
hornstraum Hrímnis.‘the horn-stream of Hrímnir.’
= POETRY
the horn-stream of Hrímnir. → POETRY
straum ‘stream’
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straumr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i/-; -ar): stream, current < hornstraumr (noun m.)
kennings
hornstraum Hrímnis.‘the horn-stream of Hrímnir.’
= POETRY
the horn-stream of Hrímnir. → POETRY
getum ‘we [I]’
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2. geta (verb): to beget, give birth to, mention, speak of; to think well of, like, love
[3] getum: getinn W
Hrímnis ‘of Hrímnir’
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Hrímnir (noun m.): Hrímnir, sooty one
kennings
hornstraum Hrímnis.‘the horn-stream of Hrímnir.’
= POETRY
the horn-stream of Hrímnir. → POETRY
veiðar ‘fishing’
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veiðr (noun f.; °-ar/-i(HómÍsl⁹(1993) 10r³²), acc. -i; -ar/-ir(Eir557 65a)): [fishing] < veiðarfœri (noun n.)
fœri ‘gear’
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fœri (noun n.): opportunity; tool, gear < veiðarfœri (noun n.)
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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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