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A final family connection that should not be overlooked in the con-
text of Grýlukvæði is the marital bond between Gissur’s family and that
of Hallgrímur Pétursson, the likely author of Leppalúðakvæði. Þorbjörg
Guðmundsdóttir (d. 1652), Hallgrímur’s aunt, married Gissur’s half-broth-
er jón sveinsson in 1615 and moved to Holt in Önundarfjörður.25 Her
parents remained at Gröf in Höfðaströnd in skagafjörður, however, as did
several of her siblings; her brother Pétur, Hallgrímur’s father, was the bell-
ringer for the cathedral at nearby Hólar. Höfðaströnd borders sléttuhlíð,
and this could be one reason for the appearance of a very local song from
this region in a collection of ballads recorded in the West fjords — and a
possible clue as to one of Gissur’s informants.
the following is a semi-diplomatic edition of Grýlukvæði in AM 147
8vo (118v–121r), with variant readings from Add. 11.177. Capitalisation is as
in modern Icelandic, with the exception of tiỏrnum in stanzas 10–11, which
is somewhat ambiguous as it could either refer to generic tjarnir (‘pools’) or
the tjarnir farm in sléttuhlíð. Italics are used in expanding abbreviations.
4. the text of Grýlukvæði
Grylu kvæde
Hier er kominn Grÿla, hun giæjist vmm höl,
hun mun vilja hvÿla sig hier vmm jöl.
Hun mun vilja hvÿla sig þvi hier eru bỏrnn,
hun er grä vmm halsinn hun hlackar eins og ørnn.
Flateyjarbók in 1647, illustrating the often overlooked role of marital ties in manuscript dis-
tribution, as shown in susanne Miriam Arthur, “the Importance of Marital and Maternal
ties in the distribution of Icelandic Manuscripts from the Middle Ages to the seventeenth
Century,” Gripla 23 (2012): 208–14. see einar G. Pétursson, “flateyjarbók og Þorláksbiblía
í Árnastofnun,” in Sagnaþing helgað Jónasi Kristjánssyni sjötugum 10. apríl 1994, ed. Gísli
sigurðsson et al., 2 bks. (Reykjavík: Hið íslenzka bókmenntafélag, 1994), 143–57.
25 Cf. Margrét eggertsdóttir, “Áhrif Brynjólfs á Hallgrím Pétursson, sálma hans og trúar-
viðhorf,” in Brynjólfur biskup – kirkjuhöfðingi, fræðimaður og skáld: Safn ritgerða í tilefni af
400 ára afmæli Brynjólfs Sveinssonar, 14. september 2005, ed. jón Pálsson et al. (Reykjavík:
Háskólaútgáfan, 2006), 90–92.
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