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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Þul Hesta 4III/3 — alsvartr ‘all-black one’

Móinn, hestr, fjǫtri,         Móðnir, róni,
alsvartr, apli,         askr, malfeti,
Blóðhófr, Hamskarpr,         brúnn, Hófvarpnir,
viggr, Skinfaxi,         virfill, Hrímfaxi.

Móinn, hestr, fjǫtri, Móðnir, róni, alsvartr, apli, askr, malfeti, Blóðhófr, Hamskarpr, brúnn, Hófvarpnir, viggr, Skinfaxi, virfill, Hrímfaxi.

Brown one, horse, fettered one, Móðnir, gelding, all-black one, foal, ash-tree, gravel-pacer, Blóðhófr, Hamskarpr, black one, Hófvarpnir, steed, Skinfaxi, virfill, Hrímfaxi.

notes

[3] alsvartr (m.) ‘all-black one’: As a horse-heiti the word does not occur elsewhere, but in eddic poetry the adj. alsvartr is an epithet for ‘ox’ (Þry 23/3 and Hym 18/8). Hence the heiti could have been confused with a heiti for ‘ox’ (the latter are sometimes recorded in the present þula, e.g. apli ‘foal’ l. 3 below; see also Note to st. 3/7 above). Alsvartr is also the name of a giant (Þul Jǫtna I 4/7).

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