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Þórálfr Frag 1III

Diana Whaley (ed.) 2017, ‘Þórálfr (-valdr), 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. 467.

Þórálfr (-valdr)Fragment1

text and translation

Sagði hitt, es hugði,
Hliðskjalfar gramr sjǫlfum
hlífar styggr, þars hǫggnir
Háreks liðar vôru.

{Gramr Hliðskjalfar}, styggr hlífar, sagði sjǫlfum hitt, es hugði, þars liðar Háreks vôru hǫggnir.
 
‘The lord of Hliðskjálf [= Óðinn], shy of protection, told him what he intended, where Hárekr’s troops were cut down.

notes and context

The helmingr is cited in Skm (SnE) as one of several stanzas illustrating kennings for Óðinn (here gramr Hliðskjalfar ‘the lord of Hliðskjálf’).

[1-2]: The opening couplet resembles Hfr Lv 6/1-2V (Hallfr 9), which reads Fyrr vas hitt, es harra | Hliðskjalfar gatk sjalfan (… blóta) ‘In former times it was different, when I could (sacrifice) to the lord of Hliðskjálf [= Óðinn] himself’. Line 1 is also identical to Steinn Nizv 1/1II. — [2]: The a and ǫ rhyme (-skjalfar : sjǫlfum) in this even line (aðalhending) is a feature characteristic of late C10th and early C11th poetry (Hreinn Benediktsson 1963a, 1).

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Text is based on reconstruction from the base text and variant apparatus and may contain alternative spellings and other normalisations not visible in the manuscript text. Transcriptions may not have been checked and should not be cited.

editions and texts

Skj: Þórálfr (-valdr), Af et ubestemmeligt digt: AI, 418, BI, 388, Skald I, 192; SnE 1848-87, I, 242-3, II, 305, 520, III, 9, SnE 1931, 91, SnE 1998, I, 11.

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