Eil Þdr 3III/6 — halla ‘of the halls’
Gǫrr varð í fǫr fyrri
farmr meinsvarra arma
sóknar hapts með svipti
sagna galdrs an Rǫgnir.
Þylk granstrauma Grímnis;
gall- manntælendr halla
-ópnis ilja gaupnum
Endils um Mó spenndu.
Farmr arma meinsvarra varð fyrri gǫrr í fǫr með svipti sagna an Rǫgnir galdrs hapts sóknar. Þylk granstrauma Grímnis; manntælendr halla gallópnis spenndu gaupnum ilja um Mó Endils.
The cargo of the arms [LOVER] of the harm-woman [= Angrboða > = Loki] was ready for the journey with the mover of troops [LEADER = Þórr] earlier than the Rǫgnir <= Óðinn> of the incantation of the god of battle [= Óðinn > BATTLE > WARRIOR = Þjálfi]. I recite the lip-streams of Grímnir <= Óðinn> [POEM]; the destroyers of the man of the halls of the shrill-crier <eagle> [(lit. ‘man-destroyers of the halls of the shrill-crier’) MOUNTAINS > GIANT > = Þórr and his companion] clasped the Mór <horse> of Endill <sea-king> [SHIP] with the palms of their foot-soles.
readings
[6] halla: ‘hall(ar)’(?) W
notes
[6-7] manntælendr halla gallópnis ‘the destroyers of the man of the halls of the shrill-crier <eagle> [(lit. ‘man-destroyers of the halls of the shrill-crier’) MOUNTAINS > GIANT > = Þórr and his companion]’: Tmesis on gallópnir is unavoidable here, and it has been adopted by all previous eds. Gallópnir is a heiti for ‘eagle’ (see Þul Ara 1/1). The halls of the eagle, i.e. the location where it can be found, are the mountains, and the men of the mountains are giants. Þórr and his follower (Þjálfi) are then called ‘fighters of giants’. All mss clearly give mann- ‘man-’ here, which makes it impossible to incorporate Endils from the last line into this kenning, as Finnur Jónsson (1900b, 378, followed by Skj and SnE 1998) does. He makes Endils the base-word of a giant-kenning, Endils halla gallópnis ‘of the Endill of the halls of the shrill-crier’, which in turn functions as the determinant in a giant-kenning with an emended mantælendr lit. ‘girl-destroyer’ as the base-word (rejected by Kock in NN §1080).
kennings
- halla gallópnis — of the halls of the shrill-crier <eagle> [MOUNTAINS]
- tælendr halla gallópnis — the destroyers of the halls of the shrill-crier <eagle> [GIANT]
- manntælendr halla gallópnis — the destroyers of the man of the halls of the shrill-crier <eagle> [= Þórr and his companion]
grammar
case: gen.
number: pl.