Þul Manna 1III/4 — drengir ‘bold men’
Mál es at segja manna heiti:
greppar ok gumnar, gumar ok drengir,
gotnar, rekkar, garpar, seggir,
sveit, snillingar ok sælkerar.
Mál es at segja heiti manna: greppar ok gumnar, gumar ok drengir, gotnar, rekkar, garpar, seggir, sveit, snillingar ok sælkerar.
It is time to say the names for men: poets and gumnar, gumar and bold men, gotnar, upright men, champions, men, troop, valiant ones and affluent ones.
readings
[4] drengir: ‘[…]’ B, ‘. . eingir’ 744ˣ
notes
[4] drengir ‘bold men’: Pl. of drengr m., lit. ‘support’. Skm gives an exhaustive explanation of this heiti (SnE 1998, I, 106): Drengir heita ungir menn búlausir meðan þeir afla sér fjár eða orðstír … þeir ok drengir er þjóna ríkum mǫnnum … Drengir heita vaskir menn ok batnandi ‘Young men without a household of their own are called drengir while they are acquiring wealth or fame … drengir are also those who are in the service of mighty men … Bold and ambitious men are called drengir’. Most frequently the word occurs in poetry in the sense ‘bold, valiant, worthy man’. For a discussion of the word, see Goetting 2006.