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Ǫlv Þórr 1III

Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫlvir hnúfa, 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. 491.

Ǫlvir hnúfaPoem about Þórr1

text and translation

Œstisk allra landa
umgjǫrð ok sonr Jarðar.

{Umgjǫrð allra landa} ok {sonr Jarðar} œstisk.
 
‘The encircler of all lands [= Miðgarðsormr] and the son of Jǫrð <goddess> [= Þórr] became violent.

notes and context

The citation comes among a number of others exemplifying kennings for the god Þórr. It is introduced with the words: Svá kvað Ǫlvir hnúfa ‘So said Ǫlvir hnúfa’.

Because the lines are fragmentary, it is possible to construe them as a complete sentence with a coordinate subject (as here) or as a main clause umgjǫrð allra landa œstisk ‘the encircler of all lands became violent’ with a following incomplete coordinate clause ok sonr Jarðar … ‘and the son of Jǫrð …’. The latter is the interpretation of Skj B.

sources

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: Ǫlvir hnúfa, 1. Af et digt om Tor(?): AI, 6, BI, 6, Skald I, 4, NN §844A; SnE 1848-87, I, 254-5, II, 308, III, 15, SnE 1931, 95, SnE 1998, I, 15.

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