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VSt Erf 2III

Edith Marold (ed.) 2017, ‘Vǫlu-Steinn, Ǫgmundardrápa 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. 429.

Vǫlu-SteinnǪgmundardrápa
12

text and translation

Mank, þats jǫrð við orða
endr myrk-Danar sendi
grœnnar grǫfnum munni
gein Hlóðynjar beina.

Mank, þats jǫrð gein endr grǫfnum munni við {sendi {orða {myrk-Danar {beina grœnnar Hlóðynjar}}}}.
 
‘I recall when the earth formerly gaped with a dug mouth at the distributor of the words of the dark-Dane of the bones of green Hlóðyn <earth> [ROCKS > GIANT > GOLD > GENEROUS MAN].

notes and context

This helmingr is cited in SnE (Skm) to illustrate the use of Hlóðyn (or Hlǫðyn) as a heiti for ‘earth, land’.

In accordance with its character as a lament, the helmingr must be Vǫlu-Steinn’s recollection of his son’s burial. However, the man-kenning it uses to denote the son could apply to any male person (see Konráð Gíslason 1874, 28).

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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: Vǫlu-Steinn 2: AI, 99, BI, 93, Skald I, 54, NN §342; SnE 1848-87, I, 474-5, II, 449, 593, III, 98, SnE 1931, 168, SnE 1998, I, 86.

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