Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Sturla Þórðarson, Hákonarkviða 21’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 715.
[1] felt ‘hooded’: 3rd pers. sg. pret. indic. of falda ‘put on a hood’. Fell ‘fell’ (3rd pers. sg. pret. indic. of falla ‘fall’, so all mss) makes no sense in the context. The emendation is in keeping with earlier eds.
[2] hausi ‘heads’: Lit. ‘head’.
[3] mans Gjallar ‘of Gjǫll’s <river in hell’s> girl [= Hel]’: So NN §3151. Skj B takes this as a reference to Móðguðr, the woman who guards the bridge across the river Gjǫll, the river that separates the world of the living from the world of the dead (see SnE 2005, 47 and Note to st. 24/2 below). This is unlikely, because Hel could hardly hood sby with the hand of sby else. LP: gjǫll 3 leaves both options open.
[3] mans Gjallar ‘of Gjǫll’s <river in hell’s> girl [= Hel]’: So NN §3151. Skj B takes this as a reference to Móðguðr, the woman who guards the bridge across the river Gjǫll, the river that separates the world of the living from the world of the dead (see SnE 2005, 47 and Note to st. 24/2 below). This is unlikely, because Hel could hardly hood sby with the hand of sby else. LP: gjǫll 3 leaves both options open.
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