Gríml Lv 1VIII (GrL 1)
Beatrice La Farge (ed.) 2017, ‘Gríms saga loðinkinna 1 (Grímr loðinkinni, Lausavísur 1)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 289.
Hvat ‘What’
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hvat (pron.): what
heita ‘are the names of’
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2. heita (verb): be called, promise
þær ‘those’
kennings
þær íbúur hrauns,‘those female inhabitants of the lava field, ’
= TROLL-WOMEN
those female inhabitants of the lava field, → TROLL-WOMEN
notes
[2] þær íbúur hrauns ‘those female inhabitants of the lava field [TROLL-WOMEN]’: This kenning is not attested elsewhere, but there are synonymous kennings for ‘giant’ in other texts: hraunbúi ‘lava-dweller’ (Hym 38/5, HHj 25/5), hraundrengr ‘rock-gentleman’ (Þjóð Haustl 17/6III). While the f. íbúa ‘female inhabitant’ is a hap. leg., the corresponding m. noun íbúi ‘male inhabitant’ is attested in Greg (Unger 1877, 1, 393).
hrauns ‘of the lava field’
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hraun (noun n.; °; -): lava field
kennings
þær íbúur hrauns,‘those female inhabitants of the lava field, ’
= TROLL-WOMEN
those female inhabitants of the lava field, → TROLL-WOMEN
notes
[2] þær íbúur hrauns ‘those female inhabitants of the lava field [TROLL-WOMEN]’: This kenning is not attested elsewhere, but there are synonymous kennings for ‘giant’ in other texts: hraunbúi ‘lava-dweller’ (Hym 38/5, HHj 25/5), hraundrengr ‘rock-gentleman’ (Þjóð Haustl 17/6III). While the f. íbúa ‘female inhabitant’ is a hap. leg., the corresponding m. noun íbúi ‘male inhabitant’ is attested in Greg (Unger 1877, 1, 393).
íbúur ‘female inhabitants’
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íbúa (noun f.): female inhabitant
kennings
þær íbúur hrauns,‘those female inhabitants of the lava field, ’
= TROLL-WOMEN
those female inhabitants of the lava field, → TROLL-WOMEN
notes
[2] þær íbúur hrauns ‘those female inhabitants of the lava field [TROLL-WOMEN]’: This kenning is not attested elsewhere, but there are synonymous kennings for ‘giant’ in other texts: hraunbúi ‘lava-dweller’ (Hym 38/5, HHj 25/5), hraundrengr ‘rock-gentleman’ (Þjóð Haustl 17/6III). While the f. íbúa ‘female inhabitant’ is a hap. leg., the corresponding m. noun íbúi ‘male inhabitant’ is attested in Greg (Unger 1877, 1, 393).
er ‘who’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
skaða ‘to harm’
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1. skaða (verb): to harm, damage
vilja ‘want’
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vilja (verb): want, intend
skipi ‘ship’
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skip (noun n.; °-s; -): ship
mínu ‘my’
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minn (pron.; °f. mín, n. mitt): my
Ykr ‘You two’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
hefik ‘I have’
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hafa (verb): have
einar ‘alone are’
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1. einn (num. cardinal; °f. ein, n. eitt; pl. einir; superl. debil. -asti(Anna238(2001) 155³²)): one; alone
sénar ‘seen’
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2. sjá (verb): see
ámátligastar ‘the most overwhelming’
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ámáttligr (adj.; °compar. -ri, superl. -astr): [mighty]
notes
[7] ámátligastar ‘the most overwhelming’: In poetry the adj. ámátligr is only used of giants and a valkyrie (HHund I 38/3) and occurs in a similar stanza in HjǪ, in which the hero of that saga asks a giantess who she is (HjǪ 11, FSGJ 4, 205); in Þul Jǫtna I 6/7III it is also predicated of giants. Ámátligr is derived from the noun máttr ‘might, strength’ and the prefix á- has intensifying character, hence ámátligr can be translated as ‘overwhelmingly strong’. It is sometimes interpreted as meaning ‘abominable, frightful’ (cf. Gering 1903: á-mátlegr; Heggstad et al. 2008: ámátligr; ÍO: ámát(t)legur).
at ‘in’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
yfirlitum ‘appearance’
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yfirlit (noun n.)
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This stanza is introduced by the words: Grímr mælti ok kvað vísu ‘Grímr spoke and uttered a stanza’.
The troll-women are described in a manner traditional for troll-women and giantesses: they are ‘inhabitants of the lava-field’ (cf. Note to l. 2) and are overwhelmingly hideous in appearance; cf. Schulz (2004, 147-53); Ket 16. They are furthermore not the only such beings in Old Norse literature who attack the ships of the hero: in a similar episode in Ket ch. 3 (FSGJ 2, 158) Grímr’s father Ketill hœngr also sails to Finnmark; he too awakens when a troll-woman shakes the stem of his ship; in HjǪ (FSGJ 4, 207) nine sea-ogresses tear the ships apart; in other sagas giants or giantesses attack ships at sea (Frið, FSGJ 3, 87; Ǫrv 1888, 44, 46); cf. HHj 13, 18-19, 23, 26.
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