Ólhv Frag 1III
Tarrin Wills (ed.) 2017, ‘Óláfr hvítaskáld Þórðarson, Fragments 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. 303.
Vættik harms, nema hitta
hǫfuðgulls náim Fullu.
Vættik harms, nema náim hitta {Fullu {hǫfuðgulls}}.
I hope for sorrow, unless we [I] manage to meet with {the Fulla <goddess> {of head-gold}} [HEADDRESS > WOMAN].
Mss: A(4v), W(103) (TGT)
Editions: Skj AI, 600, Skj BI, 600, Skald I, 292; SnE 1818, 316, SnE 1848, 186, SnE 1848-87, II, 120-1, 411, III, 142, TGT 1884, 18, 79, 189, TGT 1927, 54, 97.
Context: Cited as an example of acyrologia (‘acirologia’) or incorrect lexical use (TGT 1927, 54): Hér kallaz skáldit vætta harms þess, er hann kvíddi ‘Here the skald is said to hope for the grief which he feared’.
Notes: [All]: Finnur Jónsson (TGT 1927, 54 n.) suggests Óláfr’s authorship in his notes, based on the similarity with the example in Donatus (Keil 1855-80, IV, 394): Hunc ego si potui tantum sperare dolorem ‘If I must hope for so much pain’. This is the third of five unattributed dróttkvætt fragments in TGT which have a woman as their subject and may belong to the same poem. Cf. Anon (TGT) 6 Note to [All]. — [2] Fullu ‘the Fulla <goddess>’: Cf. Þul Ásynja 1/4.
References
- Bibliography
- TGT 1884 = Björn Magnússon Ólsen, ed. 1884. Den tredje og fjærde grammatiske afhandling i Snorres Edda tilligemed de grammatiske afhandlingers prolog og to andre tillæg. SUGNL 12. Copenhagen: Knudtzon.
- 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.
- SnE 1848 = Sveinbjörn Egilsson, ed. 1848. Edda Snorra Sturlusonar, eða Gylfaginning, Skáldskaparmál og Háttatal. Reykjavík: Prentsmiðja landsins.
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- CCCM = [Anonymous] Corpus Christianorum. 1971-. Continuatio mediaevalis. Turnhout: Brepols.
- TGT 1927 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1927b. Óláfr Þórðarson: Málhljóða- og málskrúðsrit. Grammatisk-retorisk afhandling. Det kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab. Historisk-filologiske meddelelser 13, 2. Copenhagen: Høst.
- Keil, Heinrich, ed. 1855-80. Grammatici Latini. 8 vols. Leipzig: Teubner.
- SnE 1818 = Rask, Rasmus Kristian, ed. 1818a. Snorra Edda ásamt Skáldu og þarmeð fylgjandi ritgjörðum. Stockholm: Elmen.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Óláfr hvítaskáld Þórðarson, The Third Grammatical Treatise’ in Tarrin Wills (ed.), The Third Grammatical Treatise. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=32> (accessed 20 April 2024)
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Ásynja heiti 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. 763.
- Tarrin Wills 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Stanzas from the Third Grammatical Treatise’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 536. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=2932> (accessed 20 April 2024)
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