Cookies on our website

We use cookies on this website, mainly to provide a secure browsing experience but also to collect statistics on how the website is used. You can find out more about the cookies we set, the information we store and how we use it on the cookies page.

Continue

skaldic

Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

Menu Search

Bragi Frag 3III/4 — hǫfða ‘heads’

Vel hafið yðrum eykjum
aptr, Þrívalda, haldit
simbli sumbls of mærum,
sundrkljúfr níu hǫfða.

Hafið vel haldit aptr eykjum yðrum, sundrkljúfr níu hǫfða Þrívalda, of mærum simbli sumbls.

You have well driven back your draught animals, cleaver asunder of the nine heads of Þrívaldi <giant> [= Þórr], above the famous drink-provider of the drinking party [= Ægir (ægir ‘ocean’)].

notes

[4] níu hǫfða ‘of the nine heads’: There is no other evidence, besides Bragi’s stanza, for the idea that Þrívaldi had nine heads; the name may suggest that he had three (cf. Simek 1993, 328).

kennings

grammar

Close

Log in

This service is only available to members of the relevant projects, and to purchasers of the skaldic volumes published by Brepols.
This service uses cookies. By logging in you agree to the use of cookies on your browser.

Close

Word in text

This view shows information about an instance of a word in a text.