ESk Øxfl 10III
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Einarr Skúlason, Øxarflokkr 10’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 150.
Sjá megu rétt, hvé, Ræfils
ríðendr, við brô Gríðar
fjǫrnis fagrt of skornir,
foldviggs, drekar liggja.
Megu sjá rétt, hvé drekar, fagrt of skornir, liggja við {brô {Gríðar fjǫrnis}}, {{{Ræfils fold}viggs} ríðendr}.
They can rightly see how dragons, beautifully engraved, lie near {the eyelash {of the Gríðr <giantess> of the helmet}} [AXE > AXE-BLADE], {riders {of the horse {of Ræfill’s <sea-king’s> land}}} [(lit. ‘riders of Ræfill’s land-horse’) SEA > SHIP > SEAFARERS].
Mss: R(34r), Tˣ(35v), W(78), U(33v), A(11v) (SnE); 2368ˣ(122), 743ˣ(92v) (LaufE)
Readings: [2] Gríðar: ‘griþ[…]’ U [3] fjǫrnis: ‘fiórinz’ 2368ˣ; skornir: skornar A, ‘‑kórner’ 2368ˣ [4] fold‑: ‘fiol‑’ A; ‑viggs: so W, U, A, 2368ˣ, 743ˣ, ‘vigs’ R, Tˣ
Editions: Skj AI, 479, Skj BI, 451, Skald I, 222, NN §959; SnE 1848-87, I, 430-1, II, 330, 441, III, 82-3, SnE 1931, 153, SnE 1998, I, 71; LaufE 1979, 384.
Context: Gríðr fjǫrnis ‘the Gríðr of the helmet’ is listed as an example of an axe-kenning in Skm and LaufE.
Notes: [All]: In both Skm and LaufE this stanza follows st. 9 above, and the poet is identified as ‘Einarr’ in all mss. — [1] megu sjá ‘they can ... see’: Megu (3rd pers. pl. pres. indic.) ‘can’ is construed with a suppressed subject ‘they’ (see NN §959; NS §15). — [1-2, 4] Ræfils foldviggs ríðendr ‘riders of the horse of Ræfill’s <sea-king’s> land [(lit. ‘riders of Ræfill’s land-horse’) SEA > SHIP > SEAFARERS]’: This kenning is taken as a form of address (see NN §959). Following Sveinbjörn Egilsson (SnE 1848-87, III), Skj B construes it as the subject of megu sjá ‘can see’, which creates a syntactically awkward, tripartite odd line. For the sea-king Ræfill, see Note to Þul Sækonunga 4/3. — [2] Gríðar ‘of the Gríðr <giantess>’: For Gríðr, see Note to Þul Trollkvenna 1/3. — [4] drekar ‘dragons’: This refers to the ornamental dragon- or serpent-pattern engraved on the blade of an axe (see Falk 1914b, 118-19).
References
- Bibliography
- Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
- 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.
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- LaufE 1979 = Faulkes, Anthony, ed. 1979. Edda Magnúsar Ólafssonar (Laufás Edda). RSÁM 13. Vol. I of Two Versions of Snorra Edda from the 17th Century. Reykjavík: Stofnun Árna Magnússonar, 1977-9.
- NS = Nygaard, Marius. 1906. Norrøn syntax. Kristiania (Oslo): Aschehoug. Rpt. 1966.
- Falk, Hjalmar. 1914b. Altnordische Waffenkunde. Videnskapsselskapets skrifter, II. Hist.-filos. kl. 1914, 6. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.
- SnE 1931 = Snorri Sturluson. 1931. Edda Snorra Sturlusonar. Ed. Finnur Jónsson. Copenhagen: Gyldendal.
- SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Snorri Sturluson, Skáldskaparmál’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=112> (accessed 19 April 2024)
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Sækonunga heiti 4’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 683.
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Trollkvenna 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. 724.
- (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Laufás Edda’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=10928> (accessed 19 April 2024)
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