Þblǫnd Frag 1III
Vivian Busch (ed.) 2017, ‘Þorvaldr blǫnduskáld, Fragment 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. 489.
Nú ‘Now ’
hefk ‘I have’
[1] hefk (‘hefi ec’): hefir B
mart ‘many things’
í ‘in’
miði ‘the mead’
(not checked:)
mjǫðr (noun m.; °dat. miði): mead
kennings
miði burar Bors,‘the mead of the son of Borr, ’
= POEM
the son of Borr, → Óðinn
the mead of ÓÐINN → POEM
greipat ‘included’
[2] greipat: greipar W, U, B, 2368ˣ, 743ˣ
burar ‘of the son’
(not checked:)
burr (noun m.; °; -ir): son
[3] burar: brúar Tˣ, ‘bvkar’ U, ‘barar’ B
kennings
miði burar Bors,‘the mead of the son of Borr, ’
= POEM
the son of Borr, → Óðinn
the mead of ÓÐINN → POEM
notes
[3] burar Bors ‘of the son of Borr <mythical being> [= Óðinn]’: A similar kenning for Óðinn, niðr Bors ‘son of Borr’, appears in Egill Lv 23/7V (Eg 30). Otherwise the name Borr is not attested in skaldic poetry, but two further kennings with this name as determinant are recorded in the eddic poems Vsp and Hyndl (in Codex Regius of the Poetic Edda the name is spelled Burr, with the variant Borr in the Hauksbók version of Vsp): synir Burs ‘the sons of Burr [= Æsir?]’ in Vsp 4/1 (NK 1) and arfþegi Burs ‘the heir of Burr [= Óðinn]’ in Hyndl 30/2 (NK 293). In Gylf (SnE 2005, 11), Borr is the father of Óðinn, and of Vili and Vé; their mother is the giantess Bestla.
burar ‘of the son’
(not checked:)
burr (noun m.; °; -ir): son
[3] burar: brúar Tˣ, ‘bvkar’ U, ‘barar’ B
kennings
miði burar Bors,‘the mead of the son of Borr, ’
= POEM
the son of Borr, → Óðinn
the mead of ÓÐINN → POEM
notes
[3] burar Bors ‘of the son of Borr <mythical being> [= Óðinn]’: A similar kenning for Óðinn, niðr Bors ‘son of Borr’, appears in Egill Lv 23/7V (Eg 30). Otherwise the name Borr is not attested in skaldic poetry, but two further kennings with this name as determinant are recorded in the eddic poems Vsp and Hyndl (in Codex Regius of the Poetic Edda the name is spelled Burr, with the variant Borr in the Hauksbók version of Vsp): synir Burs ‘the sons of Burr [= Æsir?]’ in Vsp 4/1 (NK 1) and arfþegi Burs ‘the heir of Burr [= Óðinn]’ in Hyndl 30/2 (NK 293). In Gylf (SnE 2005, 11), Borr is the father of Óðinn, and of Vili and Vé; their mother is the giantess Bestla.
kennings
miði burar Bors,‘the mead of the son of Borr, ’
= POEM
the son of Borr, → Óðinn
the mead of ÓÐINN → POEM
notes
[3] burar Bors ‘of the son of Borr <mythical being> [= Óðinn]’: A similar kenning for Óðinn, niðr Bors ‘son of Borr’, appears in Egill Lv 23/7V (Eg 30). Otherwise the name Borr is not attested in skaldic poetry, but two further kennings with this name as determinant are recorded in the eddic poems Vsp and Hyndl (in Codex Regius of the Poetic Edda the name is spelled Burr, with the variant Borr in the Hauksbók version of Vsp): synir Burs ‘the sons of Burr [= Æsir?]’ in Vsp 4/1 (NK 1) and arfþegi Burs ‘the heir of Burr [= Óðinn]’ in Hyndl 30/2 (NK 293). In Gylf (SnE 2005, 11), Borr is the father of Óðinn, and of Vili and Vé; their mother is the giantess Bestla.
kennings
miði burar Bors,‘the mead of the son of Borr, ’
= POEM
the son of Borr, → Óðinn
the mead of ÓÐINN → POEM
notes
[3] burar Bors ‘of the son of Borr <mythical being> [= Óðinn]’: A similar kenning for Óðinn, niðr Bors ‘son of Borr’, appears in Egill Lv 23/7V (Eg 30). Otherwise the name Borr is not attested in skaldic poetry, but two further kennings with this name as determinant are recorded in the eddic poems Vsp and Hyndl (in Codex Regius of the Poetic Edda the name is spelled Burr, with the variant Borr in the Hauksbók version of Vsp): synir Burs ‘the sons of Burr [= Æsir?]’ in Vsp 4/1 (NK 1) and arfþegi Burs ‘the heir of Burr [= Óðinn]’ in Hyndl 30/2 (NK 293). In Gylf (SnE 2005, 11), Borr is the father of Óðinn, and of Vili and Vé; their mother is the giantess Bestla.
kennings
arfa Búra.‘the heir of Búri. ’
= Óðinn
the heir of Búri. → Óðinn
notes
[4] Búra ‘of Búri <mythical being>’: Father of Borr, paternal grandfather of Óðinn. Jón Þorkelsson (1890, 3) points out that the mss’ bura must be read as Búra (with a long syllable) for metrical reasons. Gylf (SnE 2005, 11) reports how the mythical cow Auðhumla licks at salty ice-blocks and exposes a man called Búri, who is described as fagr álitum, mikill ok máttugr ‘beautiful in appearance, big and powerful’ and has a son, Borr. As a dwarf-name Búri is recorded in the Hauksbók version of Vsp 13/4 (see NK 3, notes). See also Note to Þul Dverga 1/5 (Burinn).
arfa ‘the heir’
(not checked:)
arfi (noun m.; °-a; -ar): heir, heiress
kennings
arfa Búra.‘the heir of Búri. ’
= Óðinn
the heir of Búri. → Óðinn
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