Þdís Þórr 2III
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Þorbjǫrn dísarskáld, Poem about Þórr 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. 471.
Ball ‘a clang’
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bǫllr (noun m.; °ballar, dat. belli): ?clang, powerfully
[1] Ball: Gall W
í ‘on’
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í (prep.): in, into
Keilu ‘Keila’s’
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keila (noun f.): tusk, Keila
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[1] Keilu ‘Keila’s’: An otherwise unknown giantess. The common noun keila appears in a þula as a kind of fish, cusk or tusk (Brosmius brosme), much used for stockfish in Scandinavia (Þul Fiska 4/4) and also in a list of heiti for a hen in ms. B (Þul Hana 1/7). The underlying meaning seems to be ‘narrow crevice in a ravine, waterway’ (AEW: keila), a sense probably transferred to the female sexual organs.
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[2] Kjallandi: Otherwise only listed among names for troll-women (Þul Trollkvenna 5/4).
andi ‘andi’
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-andi: [ing, andi] < Kjallandi (noun f.): Kjallandi
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[2] Kjallandi: Otherwise only listed among names for troll-women (Þul Trollkvenna 5/4).
brauzt ‘you broke’
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brjóta (verb; °brýtr; braut, brutu; brotinn): to break, destroy
alla ‘all’
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allr (adj.): all
áðr ‘already’
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áðr (adv.; °//): before
drapt ‘killed’
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drepa (verb; °drepr; drap, drápu; drepinn): kill, strike
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[3] Lút ok Leiða ‘Lútr and Leiði’: Apparently giants, although all the other beings listed in this stanza are female. Lútr ‘stooped, bent’ is the name of one of the children of thralls in Rþ 12/9.
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
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[3] Lút ok Leiða ‘Lútr and Leiði’: Apparently giants, although all the other beings listed in this stanza are female. Lútr ‘stooped, bent’ is the name of one of the children of thralls in Rþ 12/9.
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[3] Lút ok Leiða ‘Lútr and Leiði’: Apparently giants, although all the other beings listed in this stanza are female. Lútr ‘stooped, bent’ is the name of one of the children of thralls in Rþ 12/9.
lézt ‘you caused’
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láta (verb): let, have sth done
dreyra ‘to bleed’
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dreyra (verb; °-rð-): bleed
Búseyru ‘Búseyra’
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Búseyra (noun f.): Búseyra
heptir ‘you bring’
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hefta (verb): restrain, end
[5] heptir (‘heftir þv’): so W, ‘hepp ok þv’ R, Tˣ, heptuð U
Hengjan ‘Hengjan’
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hengja (verb): hang, hang up < hengjankjafta (noun f.)
[5] Hengjan‑: ‘hengiann’ W, ‘hangan’ U
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[5] Hengjankjǫptu (acc.) ‘Hengjankjǫpta’: Lit. ‘female with a dewlap or drooping jaw’. Þul Trollkvenna 2/2 records a form Hengikepta.
kjǫptu ‘kjǫpta’
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(non-lexical) < hengjankjafta (noun f.)
[5] ‑kjǫptu: so Tˣ, W, ‘keoptv’ R, ‘kepto’ U
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[5] Hengjankjǫptu (acc.) ‘Hengjankjǫpta’: Lit. ‘female with a dewlap or drooping jaw’. Þul Trollkvenna 2/2 records a form Hengikepta.
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[6] Hyrrokkin: ‘One withered by fire’. Cf. Þul Trollkvenna 2/1 and Note. Name of the giantess who attended the god Baldr’s cremation riding on a wolf with snakes for reins, and managed to launch the god’s funeral ship. This enraged Þórr, who was restrained from killing her then and there, according to Gylf (SnE 2005, 46). Úlfr Uggason treats this subject in Húsdr 11, although he does not name the giantess. It is not known whether Þorbjǫrn is referring to this occasion or to some other, when he says that Hyrrokkin had died previously. It is generally assumed that the Viking-Age carving on DR 284, originally from Hunnestad, Skåne (see DRI I, 284), and now in Lund, represents Hyrrokkin riding the wolf with snakes for reins.
dó ‘had died’
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1. deyja (verb; °deyr; dó, dó(u); dá(i)nn): die
fyrri ‘previously’
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2. fyrri (adv.): before, previously
þó ‘yet’
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þó (adv.): though
vas ‘was’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
in ‘the’
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2. inn (art.): the
Svívǫr ‘Svívǫr’
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Svívǫr (noun f.): Svívǫr
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[8] Svívǫr: Nothing is known of this giantess; Þul Trollkvenna 3/7 mentions a Sívǫr. LP: Sívǫr suggests this name means ‘always cautious’; not very plausible, as most giantess-names seem to be pejorative. Simek (1993, 308) proposes ‘shame-mouth’ for Svívǫr, with the second element from vǫrr ‘lip’. For other possible etymologies, see Note to Þul Trollkvenna 3/7.
numin ‘deprived’
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1. nema (verb): to take
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Most of the verbs in this stanza, with the exception of ball ‘there was a clang, it resounded’ (l. 1), dó ‘[she] had died’ (l. 6) and vas ‘was’ (l. 7), which are in the 3rd pers. sg. pret. indic., are 2nd pers. sg. forms, directly addressing Þórr. In order to produce metrically regular lines, it has been necessary to delete the suffixed or free-standing 2nd pers. sg. pronouns that accompany them in all mss, except for U’s heptuð (l. 5), which is 2nd pers. pl., a form favoured by Skj B and Skald, but rejected here in favour of W’s heptir, which is supported by the reading of R, Tˣ, where the scribes seem to have misunderstood an abbreviated <tir>. — Little or nothing is known about a number of Þórr’s giant adversaries listed in this stanza, most of them female. His killing of giantesses and other supernatural females seems to have been well known; cf. Hárb 23, 37-9.
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