Þdís Þórr 1III
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Þorbjǫrn dísarskáld, 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. 470.
hefr ‘has’
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hafa (verb): have
kennings
ôrum Yggs.‘the messengers of Yggr.’
= GODS
the messengers of Yggr. → GODS
notes
[1] ôrum Yggs ‘the messengers of Yggr <= Óðinn> [GODS]’: At first sight, this is probably a somewhat unusual kenning for the pagan gods who, with Þórr, defend their stronghold of Ásgarðr. However, if Þorbjǫrn was familiar with the teachings of Christianity when he composed this couplet, the kenning may have had a deliberate double entendre, playing on the meaning of the Lat. angelus ‘messenger, angel’.
með ‘together with’
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með (prep.): with
ôrum ‘the messengers’
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1. árr (noun m.; °dat. ár; ǽrir/árar, acc. áru): messenger
[1] ôrum: so W, U, ‘arvm’ altered from ‘asvm’ R, ‘asom’ Tˣ
kennings
ôrum Yggs.‘the messengers of Yggr.’
= GODS
the messengers of Yggr. → GODS
notes
[1] ôrum Yggs ‘the messengers of Yggr <= Óðinn> [GODS]’: At first sight, this is probably a somewhat unusual kenning for the pagan gods who, with Þórr, defend their stronghold of Ásgarðr. However, if Þorbjǫrn was familiar with the teachings of Christianity when he composed this couplet, the kenning may have had a deliberate double entendre, playing on the meaning of the Lat. angelus ‘messenger, angel’.
Ásgarð ‘Ásgarðr’
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Ásgarðr (noun m.): enclosure of the gods
af ‘with’
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af (prep.): from
þrek ‘power’
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þrekr (noun m.): powerful
varðan ‘defended’
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2. varða (verb): defend
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Unlike st. 2, st. 1 is not a direct address to Þórr. If it was part of a longer poem containing st. 2, it might conceivably have been a refrain (stef).
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