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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Þul Hvala 1III/3 — strambr ‘strambr’

Hafrhvalr, geirhvalr         ok hafgufa,
hnísa, hafstrambr         ok hnýðingar,
reyðr, reyðarkalfr         ok rauðkembingr,
búrungr, rostungr         ok blæjuhvalr.

Hafrhvalr, geirhvalr ok hafgufa, hnísa, hafstrambr ok hnýðingar, reyðr, reyðarkalfr ok rauðkembingr, búrungr, rostungr ok blæjuhvalr.

Buck-whale, minke whale and sea-fumer, porpoise, hafstrambr and long-finned pilot whales, rorqual, rorqual-calf and red-crest, sperm whale, walrus and nordcaper.

readings

[3] ‑strambr: ‘‑stramb[…]’ B, ‑strambr 744ˣ

notes

[3] hafstrambr (m.): Lit. ‘one that swells in the sea’. Another fabulous sea-monster described in some detail in Kgs (Holm-Olsen 1983, 27). According to Nordgaard (1920, 115), some features of this creature, which is said to live in the Greenland Sea, resemble those of a hooded seal (Cystophora cristata). For the meaning of the second element (-strambr), see ModIcel. strembinn ‘heavy’, Faeroese stremba ‘stretch out’, New Norw. stremben ‘swollen’ (ÍO: strambur; stremba, strembinn). 

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