Orð og tunga - 01.06.2010, Side 129

Orð og tunga - 01.06.2010, Side 129
Kirsten Wolf: Green and Yellow 119 Moreover, in Sgrla saga sterka, a dragon adorning a ship is described as being painted with all kinds of colors, green and white, yellow and blue, pale [see below] and black ("málaðr með alls konar ýmisligum litarhætti, grœnum ok hvítum, gulum ok blám, bleikum ok svQrtum" 3:386.4-5). Finally, grœnn occurs once in Illuga saga Gríðarfóstra (3:418.9) to de- scribe the color of the troll-woman Gríðr's eyes (augu). The compound laufgrœnn appears twice in connection with armor: once to describe the color of the strap or belt (fetill) of a shield (Elis saga ok Rósamundu 4:64.14) and once to describe the color of a helmet (hjálmr, Elis saga ok Rósamundu 4:7.1-2). There are altogether nineteen examples of gulr in the mythical he- roic sagas and the romances. In more than a third of these, the adjec- tive describes aspects of a person's physical appearance: 9. Gulr Classification Referent Physial appearance aridlit auga hár tQnn Number of examples 1 (Saga af Tristram ok ísQnd 1:156.3) 2 (SQrla saga sterka 3:371.25, Jarlmanns saga okHermanns 6:192.20) 2 (Egils saga einhenda 3:335.1, Vilmundar saga viðutan 6:18.6) 2 (Konráðs saga keisarasonar 3:304.7; Jarlmanns saga ok Hermanns 6:192.20) In both Egils saga einhenda and Vilmundar saga viðutan, the yellow hair is likened to silk ("hárit gult sem silki"). Although there are no ref- erences to yellow silk in the texts excerpted, the slips of the Arna- magnaean Commission's Dictionary show that this expression is quite common. Examples include "hárit mikit ok gult sem silki" (Orkneyinga saga 41.5-6), "hárit mikit ok gult sem silki" (Heimskringla 2:213.3),13 and "gult hár sem silki" (Heimskrmgla 3:225.6). Examples of hair that 13Ewing (2006:157) refers to the phrase in Heimskringla and argues that while some silks were dyed, som "might also have been left undyed in their natural golden colour."
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