Þórsdrápa

The Þórsdrápa ("Prize songs on Thor") are Old Norse poems of the Skaldik from the 10th century. Myths about the Nordic-Germanic god Thor are received in the poems . The Þórsdrápa have been handed down from the skalds Eilífr Goðrúnarson and Eysteinn Valdason.

Eilífr composed his Drápa in the vicinity of the court of Ladejarls Hákon ( Håkon Jarl ) in Norway. Snorri Sturluson quotes his Þórsdrápa in his Prose Edda in the Skáldskaparmál in 21 stanzas and semi-stanzas in the court tone of Dróttkvætt . Using the Kenningar, Eilífr received the myth of "Thor's drive to the giant Geirröðr " (Geirröd), Snorri's source for Gylfaginning, Chapter 18 of the Prose Edda.

Eysteinn's Drápa - an otherwise unknown author - is lost, except for three semi-stanzas that Snorri quotes in the Skáldskaparmál on the subject of “Thor's fishing trip”.

literature

• Rudolf Simek , Hermann Pálsson : Lexicon of Old Norse Literature (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 490). Kröner, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-520-49001-3 .

Web links

The Þórsdrápa of Eilífr Goðrúnarson in the database of the project “Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages” at the University of Sydney