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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Þul Ása I 1III/5 — Hildolfr ‘Hildólfr’

Burir ’ro Óðins         Baldr ok Meili,
Víðarr ok Nepr,         Váli, Áli,
Þórr ok Hildolfr,         Hermóðr, Sigi,
Skjǫldr, Yngvi-Freyr         ok Ítreksjóð,
Heimdallr, Sæmingr,         Hǫðr ok Bragi.

Burir Óðins ’ro Baldr ok Meili, Víðarr ok Nepr, Váli, Áli, Þórr ok Hildolfr, Hermóðr, Sigi, Skjǫldr, Yngvi-Freyr ok Ítreksjóð, Heimdallr, Sæmingr, Hǫðr ok Bragi.

Óðinn’s sons are Baldr and Meili, Víðarr and Nepr, Váli, Áli, Þórr and Hildólfr, Hermóðr, Sigi, Skjǫldr, Yngvi-Freyr and Ítrekr’s offspring, Heimdallr, Sæmingr, Hǫðr and Bragi.

readings

[5] Hildolfr: ‘hilldol[…]’ B, ‘hilldolfr’ 744ˣ

notes

[5] Þórr ok Hildolfr ‘Þórr and Hildólfr’: Kock (NN §2565A; Skald) argues that the correct order of these names must be Hildolfr ok Þórr so as to avoid having a non-alliterating noun in the first lift (he rearranges the names in l. 7 in a similar way and for the same reason). As the name of a son of Óðinn, Hildólfr (lit. ‘battle-wolf’) is not attested elsewhere, but in Hárb 8/1 this is the owner of the boat in which Óðinn, disguised as the ferryman Hárbarðr, refuses to take Þórr across a fjord.

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