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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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SkrautO Frag 2III/2 — berg ‘the rock’

Bǫls munat bǫr at dylja
berg-Þórs nǫsum órum.

Munat at dylja bǫr bǫls berg-Þórs ... nǫsum órum.

It will not be possible to hide the misfortune of the rock-Þórr <god> [GIANT/DWARF] from the tree ... our nostrils.

notes

[2] berg-Þórs ‘of the rock-Þórr <god> [GIANT/DWARF]’: Here taken with bǫls (cf. NN §901), but without the full syntactic context it may have another role (elsewhere in the corpus bǫl frequently forms part of a kenning; e.g. Þjóð Haustl 18, Bjbp Jóms 26/4ISturl Hákfl 4/4II). Kock (NN §3097K) interprets this as a pers. n., hence ‘Bergþórr’s misfortune’; however, this contradicts the prose context which clearly refers to a kenning here.

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