Hákonarmál

The Hákonarmál is a Scaldic lament for the dead and a song of praise by Eyvindr skáldaspillir Finnsson for the Norwegian king Hákon góði Aðalsteinsfóstri ("Hákon the good"), son of Harald Fairhair , who fell at the Battle of Fitjar in 961. Eyvindr copies the pattern of the anonymous Eiríksmál and depicts Hákon as a friend of the old pagan gods and his inclusion in Valhalla .

The Hákonarmál, together with the Eiriksmál and Haraldskvæði, form a group that are considered exponents of the early Eddic price song and represent an intermediate position between the Eddic anonymous poetry and the Skaldic poetry with identifiable authors.

See also

• Ágrip
• Háleygja Valley

literature

Editions and translations

• Finnur Jónsson (ed.): The Norsk-Islandske Skjaldedigting B: Save Tekst I . 1912 (reprinted by Rosenkilde og Bagger, Copenhagen 1973).
• (German translation) Felix Genzmer : The Edda. II poetry of the gods and poetry. Eugen Diedrichs Verlag, Jena 1912. ( Thule Collection , 2)
• (German translation) Felix Niedner : The songs of the Vikings. Theuerdank Verlag, Königsbrunn 2016 (based on the transfer of the Thule Collection 14).

Research literature

• Joseph Harris : Eiriksmál and Hákonarmál . In: Joseph R. Strayer (Ed.): Dictionary of the Middle Ages , Vol. 4 Croatia - Family sagas. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York City 1984, ISBN 0-684-17024-8 .
• Gerd Kreutzer:  Hákonarmál. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 13, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1999, ISBN 3-11-016315-2 , pp. 394-398. ( Google book search )
• Rudolf Simek , Hermann Pálsson : Lexicon of Old Norse Literature (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 490). Kröner, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-520-49001-3 .
• Jan de Vries : Old Norse literary history. (= Outline of Germanic Philology ) 15/16. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1941, 3rd unchanged edition in one volume with a foreword by Stefanie Würth 1999, ISBN 3-11-016330-6 .

Web links

• Hákonarmál at the Skaldic Poetry Project