Bragi Boddason
Bragi Boddason | |
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Skaldic poetry | |
Years active | Early 9th century |
Notable works | Ragnarsdrápa |
Bragi Boddason, known as Bragi the Old (
Life and career
Bragi is known as "the Old" to distinguish him from a 12th-century skald, Bragi Hallsson. He was a member of a prominent family in southwestern Norway;
Bragi has the same name as the god
Works
In
Most of his verses that we have preserved appear to be part of his Ragnarsdrápa. This is a shield lay, composed in return for the gift of a decorated shield, according to Snorri from Ragnarr Loðbrók,[3] but many scholars consider it more likely the poem was dedicated to a different Ragnarr.[12][13] It appears to have consisted of an introductory verse followed by four sets of four verses, each describing a scene depicted on the shield: two mythological, Gefjon plowing the island of Zealand out of Sweden and Thor fishing for the World Serpent Jǫrmungandr, and two heroic, Hamðir and Sǫrli's attack on King Jǫrmunrekkr, and the never-ending battle between Heðinn and Hǫgni, and presumably a concluding verse.[14] Parts or all of twenty verses survive;[15] one verse attributed to Bragi in all but one manuscript of the Edda is probably correctly assigned to Úlfr Uggason's Húsdrápa, which also describes a portrayal of Thor's fishing expedition.[16][17]
See also
References
- ^ OCLC 917621430, p. 25.
- ^ a b c d Finnur Jónsson, "Om skjaldepoesien og de ældste skjalde (To foredrag)", Arkiv för nordisk filologi 7 (N.S. 2) (1890) 121–55, pp. 141–45 (in Danish).
- ^ , retrieved June 4, 2021.
- ^ ISBN 3520490013, pp. 44–45 (in German).
- OCLC 923958158, p. 2.
- ^ (in Danish).
- OCLC 776250456, p. 35.
- Jan de Vries, Altgermanische Religionsgeschichte, 2 vols., Grundriß der germanischen Philologie 12, Volume 2, 2nd ed. Berlin: De Gruyter, 1957, repr. (3rd ed.) 1970, p. 273 (in German).
- ^ Turville-Petre, Origins of Icelandic Literature, pp. 35–38.
- OCLC 492651465, p. 127 (in German).
- OCLC 504185269, p. 59.
- ^ Turville-Petre, Origins of Icelandic Literature, p. 34.
- ISBN 9780803233461, pp. 1–64, p. 28.
- ^ Hollander, The Skalds, pp. 25–26.
- ISBN 9780198125174, p. 1.
- ^ "Úlfr Uggason, Húsdrápa 5" at Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages, retrieved June 4, 2021.
- ISBN 9780198111825, p. 98 (Úlfr Uggason III).