Edith Marold (ed.) 2017, ‘Eilífr Goðrúnarson, Þórsdrápa 23’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 124.
Verðið ér, alls orða
oss grœr of kon mœrar
á sefreinu Sónar
sáð, vingjǫfum ráða.
Ér verðið ráða vingjǫfum, alls {sáð orða Sónar} of {kon mœrar} grœr oss á {sefreinu}.
‘You must decide the gifts of friendship, as the seed of the words of Són <mythical vat> [POETRY] about the descendant of the land (= Jǫrð) [= Þórr] grows for us [me] in the mind-land [BREAST]. ’
The stanza is cited in Skm (SnE) among stanzas exemplifying kennings for ‘poetry’.
Earlier eds (Skj B; Skald; SnE 1998) assign this stanza to an otherwise lost poem about Hákon jarl, because they interpret the phrase kon mæran ‘famous descendant’ (so U) as an onomastic pun on Hákon’s name (see Note to l. 2 below). This edn follows the main ms. and takes kon mœrar ‘descendant of the land (= Jǫrð)’ as a Þórr-kenning, which is also the reason why this helmingr is edited as part of Þdr here. The subject matter – the poet asking for gifts – locates the stanza somewhere in the so-called slœmr, the concluding section of the drápa where the poet may mention the reward he expects for the poem.
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.
verðr ei , alls orða
oss grœr of kon mœrar
á sefreinu Sónar
sáð, vingjǫfum ráða.
Verðið ér, at orða
oss grœr of kon †morar†
á sefreinu Sónar
sáðs, vingjǫfum ráða.
Verðið ér, at orða
†os† grœr of kon mœrar
á sefreinu Sónar
sáð, vingjǫfum ráða.
Verðið ér, en jarðar
†æs† gert of kon mæran
á sef†-reinio† Sónar
sáð, vingjǫfum báðir.
Verðið ér, alls orða
oss grœr of kván mœrar
á sef†reyne† Sónar
sáð, vingjǫfum ráða.
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