Golden Words
ABSTRACT: No one shows much surprise at the many kennings referring to poetry and the mead of poetry that are found in the Old Norse corpus of poetry. There is, however, another group of rather puzzling kennings, which seem to have been taken mainly at face value, although they are based on a rather...
| Published in: | Religionsvidenskabeligt tidsskrift |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Univ.
2022
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Religionsvidenskabeligt tidsskrift
Year: 2022, Volume: 74, Pages: 525-533 |
| Further subjects: | B
Snorri
B jǫtnar B Skaldic poetry B kennings for gold and poetry |
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| Summary: | ABSTRACT: No one shows much surprise at the many kennings referring to poetry and the mead of poetry that are found in the Old Norse corpus of poetry. There is, however, another group of rather puzzling kennings, which seem to have been taken mainly at face value, although they are based on a rather strange notion. These are the many kennings that refer to gold as the speech and/or sound of the jǫtnar. In this article, I present the idea that these gold-kennings are strongly associated with the idea of poetry as the highest, most precious, form of speech. RESUME: Ingen viser megen overraskelse over de mange kenninger som henviser til digtning og digtermjødet som findes i det norrøne digt-korpus. Men der findes en anden gruppe ret gådefulde kenninger, som synes hovedsageligt at være blevet taget bogstaveligt, skønt de er baseret på en temmelig sær idé. Det er de mange kenninger som henviser til guld som jætternes tale og/eller lyd. I dette bidrag fremfører jeg den idé at disse guldkenninger er meget tæt forbundet med ideen om digtekunst som den højeste og mest dyrebare form for tale. |
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| ISSN: | 1904-8181 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religionsvidenskabeligt tidsskrift
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.7146/rt.v74i.132121 |