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.
Œstisk ‘became violent’
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œsa (verb): surge
allra ‘of all’
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allr (adj.): all
kennings
Umgjǫrð allra landa‘The encircler of all lands ’
= Miðgarðsormr
The encircler of all lands → Miðgarðsormr
landa ‘lands’
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land (noun n.; °-s; *-): land
kennings
Umgjǫrð allra landa‘The encircler of all lands ’
= Miðgarðsormr
The encircler of all lands → Miðgarðsormr
umgjǫrð ‘The encircler’
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umgjǫrð (noun f.): bindings
kennings
Umgjǫrð allra landa‘The encircler of all lands ’
= Miðgarðsormr
The encircler of all lands → Miðgarðsormr
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
sonr ‘the son’
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sonr (noun m.; °-ar, dat. syni; synir, acc. sonu, syni): son
kennings
sonr Jarðar‘the son of Jǫrð ’
= Þórr
the son of Jǫrð → Þórr
Jarðar ‘of Jǫrð’
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2. Jǫrð (noun f.): Jǫrð
kennings
sonr Jarðar‘the son of Jǫrð ’
= Þórr
the son of Jǫrð → Þórr
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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.
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