Anon Krm 25VIII/10 — hallar ‘the hall’
Hjuggu vér með hjörvi.
Hitt lægir mik jafnan,
at Baldrs föður bekki
búna veit ek at sumblum.
Drekkum bjór af bragði
ór bjúgviðum hausa;
sýtir ei drengr við dauða
dýrs at Fjölnis húsum.
Eigi kem ek með æðru
orð til Viðris hallar.
Hjuggu vér með hjörvi. Hitt lægir mik jafnan, at ek veit bekki föður Baldrs búna at sumblum. Drekkum bjór af bragði ór bjúgviðum hausa; drengr sýtir ei við dauða at húsum dýrs Fjölnis. Ek kem eigi með orð æðru til hallar Viðris.
We hewed with the sword. It always makes me laugh to know that the benches of the father of Baldr <god> [= Óðinn] are prepared for banquets. We’ll soon be drinking beer out of the curved trees of skulls [DRINKING HORNS]; a fellow does not regret death in the dwellings of glorious Fjǫlnir <= Óðinn> [= Valhǫll]. I do not come with words of fear to the hall of Viðrir <= Óðinn> [= Valhǫll].
readings
[10] hallar: so all others, hallar with ‘alias borda’ in margin 6ˣ
notes
[10] hallar ‘the hall’: Both 6ˣ and AM 761b 4°ˣ (761bˣ) fol. 556v know the alternative reading ‘borda’, i.e. borða, gen. pl. of borð ‘table’, as a variant of hallar. This would give the meaning ‘to Viðrir’s tables’ and would thus constitute another reference to Valhǫll, cf. Note to l. 3 above. AM 761b 4°ˣ, written, according to Kålund (1888-94, II, 181-2), either by or for Árni Magnússon, contains a transcript of Krm in Árni’s hand (Kålund 1888-94, II, 763). Rafn used a copy of this transcript in his 1826 edn of Krm (see Rafn 1826, 86-7) and the transcript itself in his 1829 edn, where he designated it as M (see FSN I, xvii-xix, 300-10); in both eds he recorded the reading borða as a variant (Rafn 1826, 144; FSN I, 309). The reading borða would impart aðalhending with orð ‘words’, appropriately enough, to this even-numbered line. — [10] til hallar Viðris ‘to the hall of Viðrir <= Óðinn> [= Valhǫll]’: Yet another reference to Valhǫll. Viðrir, meaning essentially ‘Weather-ruler’, occurs as a name for Óðinn in Lok 26/5, HHund I 13/7, as well as in Gylf (SnE 2005, 8) and frequently in skaldic poetry, both with direct reference to Óðinn and as a determinant in kennings (see LP: Viðrir).
kennings
- hallar Viðris. — the hall of Viðrir <= Óðinn>. [= Valhǫll]
grammar
case: gen.