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and Clausis marga- suis candida -rita thoris cited above. In the same poem
we observe a characteristic skaldic configuration where the tmetic elements
begin and end the dróttkvætt line. this pattern is firmly established in the
three attestations from ermoldus, as also in the additional examples from
theodulf, Walahfrid strabo and sedulius scottus cited above. Clearly eilífr
was fond of it, since two undoubted instances appear in Þórsdrápa, with
a third possible instance proposed for Þórsdrápa 12.1-4.147 the unequivocal
instances are as follows:
Harðvaxnar lét herðar
Hall-lands of sik falla
(gatat maðr) njótr inn neytri
njarð- (ráð fyr sér) -gjarðar.148
‘the doughty user of the power-girdle allowed the rocks [shoulders
of the boulder-land] to fall on himself; the man knew of no help
for it.’
komat tvíviðar tívi,
tollur karms, sás harmi
brautar liðs of beitti
bekk- fall jǫtuns -rekka.149
‘no lack of support befell the double wood-stave [bow-tree,
warrior], the god of the wagon, who inflicted grief on the giant’s
bench-fellows.’150
147 Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning, 3 (B.1):142; kock, Notationes norrœnæ, §458; Reichardt,
Studien zu den Skalden, 210; Reichardt, ‘die thórsdrápa’, 367–8; and Reichardt, ‘A
Contribution’, 213–14; Edda: Skáldskaparmál, 1:28.
148 Þórsdrápa 7.1–4: finnur jónsson, ‘kenningers led-omstilling’, 15; Reichardt, Studien zu den
Skalden, 207–8; Reichardt, ‘die thórsdrápa’, 351–2; Reichardt, ‘A Contribution’, 212–13;
contrast Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning, 3 (B.1):141; kock, Notationes norrœnæ, §449;
Edda: Skáldskaparmál, 1:27.
149 Þórsdrápa 19.5–8: Reichardt, ‘die thórsdrápa’, 387–8; Reichardt, ‘A Contribution’, 214–
15; Edda: Skáldskaparmál, 1:29; contrast Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning, 3 (B.1):143.
150 Edda, 85, with modifications.
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