Fidjestøl, Bjarne. Skaldic Poetry and the Conversion

• Author: Fidjestøl, Bjarne
• Title: Skaldic poetry and the conversion. With some reflections on literary form as a source of historical information
• Published in: Selected Papers
• Editors: Odd Einar Haugen and Else Mundal
• Series: The Viking Collection 9
• Place, Publisher: Odense: Odense University Press
• Year: 1997
• Pages: 133-50
• E-text:
• Reference: Fidjestøl, Bjarne. "Skaldic poetry and the conversion. With some reflections on literary form as a source of historical information." Transl. Peter Foote. Selected Papers. Eds. Odd Einar Haugen and Else Mundal. The Viking Collection 9. Odense: Odense University Press, 1997, pp. 133-50.

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• Key words: history, religion, poetry (sagnfræði, trúarbrögð, kveðskapur)

Annotation

A discussion of the degrees of religiosity of skaldic poetry connected with Haraldur Fine-Hair and his descendants.

Lýsing

Umræða um trúarleg áhrif í dróttkvæðum sem tengjast Haraldi hárfagra og afkomendum hans.

See also

• Fidjestøl, Bjarne. Skaldediktinga og truskiftet

References

Chapter 62: Vestr fór eg: Höfuðlausn is an example of a poem (concerning Eiríkr blóðøx) with “no religious elements except in kennings and figures of speech” (p. 150).

Links

• Written by: Jane Appleton
• Icelandic translation: Jón Karl Helgason