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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Guðl Lv 1III/3 — hríðar ‘of battle’

Hrǫkk at Haugabrekku
hóts meirr en til gátum
fyr hyrgœði hríðar
Halldórr í bug skjaldi.

At Haugabrekku hrǫkk Halldórr hóts meirr en gátum til í bug skjaldi fyr hríðar hyrgœði.

At Haugabrekka Halldórr recoiled a great deal more than we expected in the hollow of the shield before the increaser of the fire of battle [(lit. ‘fire-increaser of battle’) SWORD > WARRIOR].

readings

[3] hríðar: hríða W

notes

[3] hyrgœði hríðar ‘the increaser of the fire of battle [(lit. ‘fire-increaser of battle’) SWORD > WARRIOR]’: Sveinbjörn Egilsson (SnE 1848, 188) and most subsequent eds emend hyr- to hjǫr- ‘sword-’ to create a battle-kenning; however, hríð can refer to battle by itself (cf. Þul Orrostu 2/7), and can therefore function as a determinant in a sword-kenning, as Kock intimates (NN §994). However, it is possible that, by citing the kenning as cacosyntheton, Óláfr himself considered the kenning as a whole incorrect, rather than the inverted arrangement of its elements.

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