Vetrliði Sumarliðason

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This is an Icelandic name. The last name is patronymic, not a family name; this person is referred to by the given name Vetrliði.

Vetrliði Sumarliðason (

Icelandic skald
.

He was the great-grandson of

Ketill hængr ("salmon"), one of the settlers of Iceland. He lived in Fljótshlíð
, in the south of the island.

Vetrliði was pagan and opposed the conversion to Christianity. He composed defamatory verses (

Óláfr Tryggvason. He was killed by the priest (or by the priest and his companion Guðleifr Arason). In some versions, another skald, Þorvaldr veili
, was murdered for the same reason. A stanza was composed by an unknown author about Vetrliði's death:

This episode is related in many sources:

Brennu-Njáls saga, Snorri Sturluson's Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar and Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta
.

Only one stanza of his work survived, a lausavísa praising Thor for having killed giants and giantesses:

Thou didst break the leg of Leikn,
Didst cause to stoop Starkadr,
Didst bruise Thrívaldi,
Didst stand on lifeless Gjálp.
—Skáldskaparmál (11), Brodeur's translation[3]

References

  1. ^ According to Bo Almqvist (Norrön niddiktning: traditionshistoriska studier i versmagi. 2. Nid mot missionärer. Senmedeltida nidtraditioner. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1974), Vetrliði could have accused Þangbrandr of ergi.
  2. ^ Dasent, George Webbe (trans.). 1861. The Story of Burnt Njal. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas.
  3. ^ Brodeur, Arthur Gilchrist (trans.). 1916. Snorri Sturluson: The Prose Edda. New York: The American-Scandinavian Foundation.

External links

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