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.
Þórr hefr Yggs með ôrum
Ásgarð af þrek varðan.
Þórr hefr varðan Ásgarð af þrek með {ôrum Yggs}.
Þórr has defended Ásgarðr with power together with {the messengers of Yggr <= Óðinn>} [GODS].
Mss: R(22r), Tˣ(22r), W(47), U(27v) (SnE)
Readings: [1] Þórr: þór Tˣ; Yggs: ‘ygs’ Tˣ; ôrum: so W, U, ‘arvm’ altered from ‘asvm’ R, ‘asom’ Tˣ
Editions: Skj AI, 144, Skj BI, 135, Skald I, 74; SnE 1848-87, I, 256-7, II, 309, III, 17, SnE 1931, 96, SnE 1998, I, 16.
Notes: [All]: 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). — [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’.
References
- Bibliography
- SnE 1848-87 = Snorri Sturluson. 1848-87. Edda Snorra Sturlusonar: Edda Snorronis Sturlaei. Ed. Jón Sigurðsson et al. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Legatum Arnamagnaeanum. Rpt. Osnabrück: Zeller, 1966.
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- SnE 1931 = Snorri Sturluson. 1931. Edda Snorra Sturlusonar. Ed. Finnur Jónsson. Copenhagen: Gyldendal.
- SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
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