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Hfr Hákdr 7III

Kate Heslop (ed.) 2017, ‘Hallfreðr vandræðaskáld Óttarsson, Hákonardrápa 7’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 223.

Hallfreðr vandræðaskáld ÓttarssonHákonardrápa
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text and translation

Rôð lukusk, at sá síðan
snjallráðr konungs spjalli
átti eingadóttur
Ónars viði gróna.

Rôð lukusk, at {sá snjallráðr spjalli konungs} átti síðan {eingadóttur Ónars}, gróna viði.
 
‘The marriage was concluded, so that shrewdly-advising king’s intimate [RULER] afterward possessed the only daughter of Ónarr <giant> [= Jǫrð (jǫrð ‘earth’)], grown with forest.

notes and context

This helmingr is quoted twice in Skm, the first time in a series of six citations exemplifying kennings for ‘earth’ (jǫrð), and the second as an example of the ruler-kenning spjalli konungs ‘king’s intimate’.

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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: Hallfrøðr Óttarsson vandræðaskáld, 1. Hákonardrápa 5: AI, 155-6, BI, 148, Skald I, 80, NN §318; SnE 1848-87, I, 320-1, 460-1, II, 315, 338, 528, III, 50, SnE 1931, 115, 163, SnE 1998, I, 35-6; Davidson 1983, 449, 504-9.

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