Asatru Folk Assembly - December 22, 2023


Þrymskviða, a reading

Hosted by
Steve McNallen
Mentioned
Freya Thrymskvitha Wild Loki Skurnismal Hilaroti Regius Vluspa Threm Thoki Thor
Lokasenna, a reading Völundarkviða, a reading

Episode Stats


Length

10 minutes

Words per minute

121.89

Word count

1,256

Sentence count

56

Harmful content

Misogyny

10

sentences flagged

Hate speech

20

sentences flagged


Summary

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Thrymskvitha, The Lay of Thrym, is one of the most famous ballads in the entire Edda, and has been called by some as the greatest ballad in the world. It's swift, vigorous action, the sharpness of its characterization, and the central situation all combine to make it one the most vivid, short narrative poems ever composed.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Thrymskvitha, The Lay of Thrym, Thrym's Poem.
00:00:26.000 The Thrymsk Vitha is found only in the Codex Regius, where it follows the Locasena.
00:00:31.440 Sonority does not quote from it, nor, rather oddly, does the story appear in the Prose Edda.
00:00:37.740 Artistically, the Thrymsk Vitha is one of the best, as it is, next to the Vluspa, the most famous of the entire collection.
00:00:44.980 It has indeed been called the most famous ballad in the world, and not without reason.
00:00:50.940 Its swift, vigorous action, the sharpness of its characterization, and the humor of the central situation
00:00:56.100 combined to make it one of the most vivid, short narrative poems ever composed.
00:01:01.000 Of course, we know nothing specific of its author,
00:01:04.380 but there can be no question that he was a poet of extraordinary ability.
00:01:08.380 The poem assumed its present form, most critics agree, somewhere about 900,
00:01:13.580 and thus it is one of the oldest in the collection.
00:01:16.700 It has been suggested on the basis of stylistic similarity,
00:01:19.940 that its author may have also composed the Skurnismal and possibly Baldur's Draumer.
00:01:26.360 There is also some resemblance between the Thrymskvitha and the Locasinna.
00:01:32.040 Note in this connection, Bukes' suggestion that the Skurnismal and the Locasinna may have been by the same men.
00:01:40.020 And it is not impossible that all four poems have a single authorship.
00:01:44.440 The Thrymskvitha has been preserved in excellent condition, without any serious gaps or interpolations.
00:01:53.180 In striking contrast to many of the poems, it contains no prose-narrative links,
00:01:58.560 the story being told in narrative-verse, a rare phenomenon, in the poems of the Edda.
00:02:06.820 Thrymskvitha
00:02:07.500 Wild was Vingthor when he awoke, and when his mighty hammer he missed.
00:02:14.440 and shook his beard his hair was bristling as the son of yord about him sought hear now the speech
00:02:21.800 that first he spake hearken loki and heed my words nowhere on earth is it known to man 0.78
00:02:29.320 nor in heaven above our hammer is stolen to the dwelling fair of freya they went
00:02:35.800 Hear now the speech that first he spake
00:02:39.020 Wilt thou, Freya, thy feathered dress lend me 0.97
00:02:42.900 That so my hammer I may seek? 1.00
00:02:46.740 Freya spake 0.99
00:02:47.680 Thine should it be, though silver bright
00:02:51.840 And would I give it, though twiller of gold? 0.94
00:02:55.840 Then Loki flew, and the feathered dress whirled
00:02:58.660 Till he left behind him the home of the gods
00:03:01.580 And reached at last the realm of the giants.
00:03:04.200 Thrym sat on a mound, a giant's master. Leashes of gold he slayed for his dogs, and stroked
00:03:13.720 and smoothed the manes of his steeds.
00:03:16.880 Thrym spake, How fair are the gods, how fair are the elves! Why scomst thou alone to the
00:03:23.920 giant's land?
00:03:26.880 Loki spake, ill fair the gods, ill fair the elves, hast thou hidden Hylrothi's hammer?
00:03:37.340 Thrym spake, I have hidden Hylrothi's hammer, eight miles down deep in earth, 0.62
00:03:44.280 and back again shall no man bring it, if Thraea would not be my wife. 0.60
00:03:50.060 Then Loki flew in the feather-dressed world
00:03:54.960 Till he left behind him the home of the giants
00:03:58.000 And reached at last the realm of the gods
00:04:00.760 There in the courtyard, Dorme he met
00:04:04.180 He uttered now the speech that first he spake
00:04:07.440 Hast thou fine tidings as well as trouble
00:04:11.940 Thy news is in the air, shalt thou utter now
00:04:15.820 Off doth the sitter his story forget
00:04:18.980 and lies he speaks who lays himself down Loki spake trouble I have in tidings as
00:04:27.560 well Threm king of giants keeps thy hammer and back again shall no man
00:04:33.440 bring it if Freya he wins not to be his wife Freya the fair then what they find
00:04:41.840 Hear another speech, and first he spake.
00:04:49.380 Bind on, Freya, the bridal veil, for we two must haste to the giant's home. 0.90
00:04:56.480 Wrathful was Freya, and fiercely she snorted, and the dwelling grate of the gods was shaken, 0.88
00:05:03.280 and burst was the mighty Blissing's necklace. 0.97
00:05:07.140 Most lustful indeed should I look to all.
00:05:09.880 If I journeyed with thee to the giant's home
00:05:12.780 Then were the gods together met
00:05:16.620 And the goddesses came, the council held
00:05:19.000 And the farfiend ones a plan would find 0.58
00:05:22.180 How they might, Hilaroti's hammer, win 0.96
00:05:25.840 Then Hindal spake, whitest of the gods 0.99
00:05:30.600 Like the wainsy knew the future well 1.00
00:05:33.320 Bind we on Thor, the bridal veil
00:05:37.820 and let him bear the mighty blessing's necklace.
00:05:42.240 Keys around him let it rattle,
00:05:44.680 and down to his knees hang a woman's dress,
00:05:48.100 with gems full broad upon his breast
00:05:50.500 and a mighty cap to crown his head.
00:05:54.940 Then Thor the mighty his answer made,
00:05:58.700 Me would the gods and manly call
00:06:00.920 if I let bind the bridal veil.
00:06:05.000 Then Thulke spake the son of Laufey,
00:06:07.820 be silent thor and speak not thus else so the giants in asgard dwell if the hammer is brought not home to thee then bound they on thor the bridal veil and next the mighty brissing's necklace
00:06:25.060 keys around him let they rattle and down to his knees hung woman's dress with jim's full bra upon his breast and a pretty cap to crown his head
00:06:39.060 Then Thoki spake, the son of Louthi,
00:06:43.020 As thy maid-servant, hither I go with thee. 1.00
00:06:47.080 We shall see haste to the giant's home.
00:06:51.720 Then home the goats to the hall were driven.
00:06:55.160 They retched at the halters, swift were they to run.
00:06:58.920 The mountains burst, earth burned with fire,
00:07:02.560 and Odin's son, South Jotunheim.
00:07:05.980 Then loud spake Thrym, the giant's leader,
00:07:09.060 Besteria, ye giants, put straw on the benches, now Freya they bring to be my bride, the 0.99
00:07:16.960 daughter of Nyoth, out of Nyothun. 0.99
00:07:21.320 Goldhorn cattle, go to my stables, jet black oxen, the giant's joy, many my gems and many
00:07:27.400 my jewels, Freya alone did I lack, methinks.
00:07:35.080 it was to evening come, and forth was born the beer for the giants.
00:07:40.460 Dor alone ate an ox and ate salmon, all the dainties as well that were set for the women,
00:07:47.440 and drank Sif's mate three tons of mead.
00:07:51.360 Then aloud spake Thrym, the giant's leader, 0.87
00:07:54.820 Who ever saw bride more keenly bite?
00:07:58.660 I ne'er saw bride with a broader bite, nor a maiden who drank more mead than this.
00:08:05.080 hard by the set the serving-maid wise so well she answered the giant's words from food has freya eight nights fasted so hot was her longing for liotenhayn 0.96
00:08:20.080 Thrym looked beneath the veil, for he longed to kiss, but back he leaped the length of
00:08:27.800 the hall.
00:08:28.800 Why are so fearful the eyes of Freya?
00:08:33.580 Fire me, thanks, from her eyes burn forth.
00:08:38.220 Hard by there sat the serving maid wise, so well she answered the giant's words. 0.79
00:08:44.000 No sleep has Freya, for eight nights found.
00:08:48.880 So hot was her longing for Ljotunheim.
00:08:53.180 Soon came the giant's luckless sister, Who fared not to ask the bridal fee.
00:09:00.620 From thy hands the rings of red gold take, If thou wouldst win my willing love,
00:09:07.260 My willing love, and welcome glad. 1.00
00:09:11.520 Then loud spake Thrym the giant's leader, Bring in the hammer to hollow the bride,
00:09:18.200 On the maiden's knees let Mjolnir lie, That us both the band of Vol may bless. 0.93
00:09:27.940 The heart and the breast of the Hrothi laughed When the hard-sold one his hammer beheld. 0.94
00:09:34.580 First threatened the king of the giants he killed, Then all the folk of the giants he 0.97
00:09:39.440 felled. 0.95
00:09:40.440 The giant's sister old he slew, She would beg the bridal fee. 0.99
00:09:46.260 A stroke she got in the stealing steed, And for many rings the might of the hammer,
00:09:53.400 And so his hammer got Oten's son.
00:10:16.260 You