Skírnismál, a reading
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Misogyny
6
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Hate speech
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Summary
Skyrr, the son of Odin, falls in love with a giant s daughter who he sees from Odin s high seat. According to Snorri, his love sickness is a punishment for resirping Odin s place, though the poem does not suggest this.
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Scurinismal, the lay of Scurinir, Scurinir's journey.
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Threyr falls in love with a giant's daughter who he sees from Odin's high seat, Hlitskijov.
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According to Snorri, his love sickness is a punishment for resirping Odin's place, though the poem does not suggest this.
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Freyr's concerned parents, Njord and Skadi, is not said to be Freyr's mother elsewhere.
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Loki claims that Freyr and Freya were born of the union between Njord and his sister
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in Lokasina, an allegation which Snorri does not address.
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First-concerned parents, Njord and Skadi, ask their son's old friend and servant, Skirnir,
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Skirnir volunteers to go on a wooing mission and, after a remarkably smooth journey, effectively
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bullies the reluctant girl into agreeing to a rendezvous with Freyr.
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Snorri tells us in Yngling Saga that the pair married and had a son called Fjornir, who
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it was the ancestor of the England dynasty of Norwegian kings, and that in handing his
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sword over to Skönernir, Freyr leaves himself weaponless at Ragnarok.
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Although the poem has no special connection with wisdom, it is composed mostly in Ljødderhater
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Several scholars have thought that, with its accession of lively scenes, Skönernismal
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may well have been intended for dramatic presentation.
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The Skurnesmall is found complete in the Codex Regius
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The scrum in a small differs sharply from the poems preceding it, in that it is distinctively
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As a matter of fact, however, its verse is altogether dialogue, a narrative being supplied
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The dramatic effectiveness and vivid characterization of the poem seem to connect it with the Thrymskvitha,
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and the two may possibly have been put into their present form by the same man.
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Bugh's guess that the screen of small was the work of the author of the Locasena is
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also possible, though it has less to support it.
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Critics have generally agreed in dating the poem as we now have it as early as the first
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Fanner Johnson puts it as early as 800, and claims it as usual for Norway.
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Dallas was current in Norway in one form or another before the first Icelandic settlements,
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But his argument that the thistle, in stanza 31, is not an Icelandic plant has little weight,
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for such curse formulas must have traveled freely from place to place.
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In view of the evidence pointing to a Western origin for many or all of the Edic poems,
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Diktet er sekert norsk og ikke Islandis, is what is somewhat exasperating.
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It has been preserved in an exceptionally good condition, and seems to be practically
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Frere, the son of Njord, had sat one day in Hilskjolf and looked over all the worlds.
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He looked into Jotunheim and saw there a fair maiden, as she went from her father's house
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He said, Go now, Skirnir, and seek to gain speech from my son, and answer to win, for
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Skrnir spake, ill words do I now await from thy son, if I seek to get speech with him, and answer to win, for whom the wise one is mightily moved.
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Skrnir spake, speak prithee, threre, foremost of the gods, for now I fain would know, why sittest thou here in the white halls, days long, my prince, alone?
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Thraer spake, how shall I tell thee, thou hero young, of all my griefs so great?
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Though every day the elf-beam dawns, it lights my longing never.
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Skurnir spake, the longings, methink, are not so large, that thou may'st not tell them
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to me, since in days of yore we were young together, we two my each other'd thrust.
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Freyr spake, from Gimir's house I beheld go forth a maiden dear to me.
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Her arms glitter'd, and from their gleam shone all the sea and sky.
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To me more dear than in days of old was ever made into man.
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But no one of gods or elves will grant that we both together should be.
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Skurnir spake, Then give me the horse that goes through the dark
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And magic flickering flames, And the sword as well that fights of itself
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We shall both come back, or us both together, the terrible giant, will take.
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There were fierce dogs bound before the gate of the fence, which was around Gurs Hall.
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He rode to where a herdsman sat on a hill and said,
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Tell me, herdsman, sitting on the hill and watching all the ways,
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Art thou of the elves, or the offspring of gods
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How cam'st thou alone through the leaping flame,
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nor of the offspring of gods, nor of the wise wains.
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Here will I give thee, Girth, to buy thy troth,
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That Freyr shall be deemed to be dearest to you.
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Girth spake, I will not take, at any man's wish,
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These eleven apples ever, nor shall Freyr and I,
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Scunner spake, Then do I bring thee the ring that was burned,
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of old with Odin's son, from it to eight, of lightweight fall, on every ninth night.
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Gilder spake, the ring I wish not, though burned it was, of old with Odin's son,
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in Gimur's home is no lack of gold, in the wealth my father wields.
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Seast thou, maiden, this keen bright sword that I hold here in my hand.
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I seek thee, maid, with my magic staff, to tame thee to work my will.
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There shalt thou go, where never again the sons of men shall see thee
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On the eageless hill shalt thou ever sit, and gaze on the gates of hell
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More lonesome to thee than the light-hued snake to men shall thy meat become
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Fearful to see, if thou comest forth, remner will stand and stare
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Men will marvel at thee, more fame shalt thou grow than the watchman of the gods
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In the giant's home shall vile things harm thee
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that in the loft was cast and there was crushed.
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Thraer stood without and spoke to him and asked for tidings.
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ere thou take off the saddle, or farest forward a step,