SkrautO Frag 2III
Tarrin Wills (ed.) 2017, ‘Skraut-Oddr, Fragments 2’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 359.
Bǫls ‘the misfortune’
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bǫl (noun n.; °-s, dat. bǫlvi): evil
munat ‘will not be possible’
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munu (verb): will, must
bǫr ‘from the tree’
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bǫrr (noun m.): tree
notes
[1] bǫr ‘the tree’: Probably the base-word of a kenning for ‘man’ (see LP: bǫrr). Kock (NN §901) emends bǫr (m. acc./dat. sg.) to bǫrr (nom. sg.) to make this the subject, i.e. ‘the [man] will not deny …’, which is plausible given the W scribe’s tendency to omit final -r (especially in geminates). However, this is clearly not a free-standing couplet, and there is no need to presume that the subject is included in the cited portion. This edn interprets the acc. as the object of dylja ‘hide’.
at ‘to’
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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)
berg ‘the rock’
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berg (noun n.; °-s; -): rock, cliff < Bergþórr (noun m.): [Bergthórr]
kennings
berg-Þórs ...‘the rock-Þórr ’
= GIANT/DWARF
the rock-Þórr → GIANT/DWARF
notes
[2] berg-Þórs ‘of the rock-Þórr <god> [GIANT/DWARF]’: Here taken with bǫls (cf. NN §901), but without the full syntactic context it may have another role (elsewhere in the corpus bǫl frequently forms part of a kenning; e.g. Þjóð Haustl 18, Bjbp Jóms 26/4I, Sturl Hákfl 4/4II). Kock (NN §3097K) interprets this as a pers. n., hence ‘Bergþórr’s misfortune’; however, this contradicts the prose context which clearly refers to a kenning here.
Þórs ‘Þórr’
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Þórr (noun m.): Thor; giant, ogre, monster < Bergþórr (noun m.): [Bergthórr]
kennings
berg-Þórs ...‘the rock-Þórr ’
= GIANT/DWARF
the rock-Þórr → GIANT/DWARF
notes
[2] berg-Þórs ‘of the rock-Þórr <god> [GIANT/DWARF]’: Here taken with bǫls (cf. NN §901), but without the full syntactic context it may have another role (elsewhere in the corpus bǫl frequently forms part of a kenning; e.g. Þjóð Haustl 18, Bjbp Jóms 26/4I, Sturl Hákfl 4/4II). Kock (NN §3097K) interprets this as a pers. n., hence ‘Bergþórr’s misfortune’; however, this contradicts the prose context which clearly refers to a kenning here.
nǫsum ‘nostrils’
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nǫs (noun f.; °; nasar/nasir): nose, nostrils
órum ‘our’
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várr (pron.; °f. ór/vár; pl. órir/várir): our
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Cited as an example of a kenning for ‘giant’ or ‘dwarf’ as part of an extended description of the kenning as metaphora. It is not clear from the prose whether Óláfr believed it to refer to a giant, a dwarf or both (TGT 1927, 75): Svá eru ok jǫtnar ok dvergar kallaðir menn eða konungar bjarga eða steina sem Skraut-Oddr kvað ‘Thus giants and dwarfs are also called men or kings of rocks or stones, as Skraut-Oddr said’.
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