Øxarflokkr
L*Øxarflokkr (“ Flokkr of the axe”) is a made up poem at the 12th century by the Scalde and priest Icelandic Einarr Skúlason.
Invented by Jón Sigurðsson at the 19th century, the name Øxarflokkr was taken again by Finnur Jónsson in Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning (1912-15) to indicate eleven stanzas allotted to Einarr Skúlason. Their membership of a single poem is discussed. Ten of them are preserved in the Skáldskaparmál of Snorri Sturluson. Guðrún Nordal makes the point that when Snorri quotes several stanzas of same a scalde after, they generally come from the same poem. However, it is the case of stanzas 1 to 5 and 6 and 7. Like the seven preceding ones, stanza 8 fact part of the section devoted to the Kenning rear indicating gold. Guðrún thus estimates that these eight stanzas form part of a common work well. Kari Ellen Gade, author of the last edition on poem, retained the ten stanzas transmitted by Snorri, but regarded the last, which comes from the Third treaty grammatical , as anonymity. Its attribution with Einarr indeed seems to rest on the only evocation of an axe.
L Øxarflokkr indeed evokes an axe offered to Einarr by one of its guards, arms decorated with gold. Einarr uses several kenningar consequently indicating gold or the richness and referring to mythological characters . Are thus employed many kenningar where gold is qualfié “tears of Freyja”: “tears of Mardöll Freyja” ( Mardallar grátr ), “rain of the eyes of the partner of Ód” ( regn augna Óðs beðvinu ), “thaw of the lashes of Freyja” ( hvarmþeyr Freyju ), etc Of others still return to the myth of the king Fródi and of the giant be Fenja and Menja. They illustrate the fact that even a priest could make use of pagan references
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