A Study Guide

Manuscripts The text of the poem is contained in Codex Regius MS No. 2365 4to [R] page 33 Lokasenna 63—Þrymskviða 12 page 34 Þrymskviða 13 —Þrymskviða 31 page 35 Þrymskviða 31—Völundarkviða 7

Old Icelandic Editions 1857 Sophus Bugge in Norrœn Fornkvæði as Þrymskviða 1876 Karl Hildebrand as Þrymskviða (pp.21-27) 1954 Guðni Jónsson in Eddukvæði as Þrymskviða

English Translations:

• 1797 Amos Simon Cottle in Icelandic Poetry as  "The Ode of Thrym"

   

  1804 William Herbert in Select Icelandic Poetry as "Song of Thrym"

   

  1853 J.A. in Dublin University Magazine, Vol. 41 as "Thor and Thrym; or Thor's Hammer Brought Home"

   

  1861 George Webbe Dasent in Once a Week, Vol. 4 as "Thorr's Hunt for his Hammer"

   

  1866 Benjamin Thorpe in Edda Sæmundar Hinns Frôða as “The Lay of Thrym or the Hammer Recovered"

   

  1870 William Morris as "The Lay of Thrym"

   

  1872 Anonymous in "Two Norse Lays" as The Thrymsquidha: "Thrym's Lay or The Homebringing of the Hammer"

   

  1874 C.P. Cranch in The Atlantic Monthly no 33 as "The Lay of Thrym or The Hammer Recovered" 

      

  1875 Rasmus Anderson in Overland Monthly as "Thor and the Giant Thrym: Thor's Hammer Lost and Recaptured"

   

  1883 Gudbrand Vigfusson in Corpus Poeticum Boreale as “The Lay of Thrym"

    

  1884 Rasmus Anderson in Northern Mythology as "The Lay of Thrym" (Revised from the 1875 edition)

   

  1902 Beatice Helen Barmby in the Saga-Book for the Viking Club, no. 3 as "The Lay of Thrym"

   

  1903 Frank E. Bryant in Poet Lore Magazine no. 14 as "The Thrymskwitha" (Revised 1905; Review)

   

  1907 George T. Flom in Journal of American Folk-Lore XX, 1907 as "The Lay of Thrym or The Fetching of Thor's Hammer" (Review)
  

  1908 Olive Bray in Edda Saemundar as “The Lay of Thrym"

            

  1911 Albert E. Egge in Poet Lore as "The Lay of Thrym"

   

  1923 Henry Bellows in The Poetic Edda as “The Lay of Thrym"

   

  1930 Watson Kirkconnell in The North American Book of Icelandic Verse as "The Lay of Thrym"

   

  1962 Lee M. Hollander in The Poetic Edda as “The Lay of Thrym"

    

  1965 Jacqueline Simpson in The Northmen Talk as "Thor's Hammer"

   

  1967 W. H. Auden & P. B Taylor The Elder Edda as “The Lay of Thrym"

   

  1969 Patricia Terry in Poems of the Elder Edda as “The Lay of Thrym" (Revised 1989)

   

  1990 George Johnston as "The Lay of Thrym"

   

  1996 Carolyne Larrington in The Poetic Edda as "Thrym's Poem"  Buy this book

        

  2011 Andy Orchard in The Elder Edda as "The Song of Thrym" Buy this book

  French Translations:  

   

  • 1820 Jens Wolff in Runakelfi as "Le Chant de Thrym ou le Marteau Retrouvé"

  • 1842 Xavier Marmier in Chants populaires du Nord  as Le Chant de Thrym, ou le Marteau de Thor

  • 1844 Rosalie du Puget in Les Eddas as "La Recherche du Marteau"

  • 1846 William Edward Frye in Trois chants de l'Edda as "Chant de Thrym"

     

  German Translations:

      

  • 1789 Fredrich David Gräter as Thrym oder Wiedererlangung des hammers

  • 1823 Adelbart von Chamisso as Lied von Thrym

  • 1860 Ludwig Frauer as "Das Lied vоn Thrym oder die Heimholung des Hammers"

  • 1874 Karl Simrock as "Thryms-Sage oder des Hammers Heimholung"

  • 1876 Wilhelm Jordan as "Lied von Thrym oder Hammers Heimkunst"

  • 1877 Bodo Wenzel as "Die Sage von Thrym"

  • 1878 Frederich W. Bergmann as "Thryms-Sagelied"

  • 1903 Frederich Fischbach as "Thorrs hammer heimholung" (p. 13)

       

  Spanish Translations:

      

  • 1856 D.A. de los Rios in Los Eddas as "El Poema del Martillo"

   

  Swedish Translations:

      

  • 1856 J. Aars in Udvalgte Norske Oldkvad as "Tors Hammerhentning"

  • 1893 Frederik Sanders in Sämunds Edda den Vises as "Kvädet om Trym eller Hammarhämtningen"

   

  Popular Retellings:

   

  An Illustration Gallery of scenes from the story. New Yorker Magazine June 4, 1990 Thor's Wedding Day by Bruce Coville

    

  Scholarship:

  Notes to Þrymskvida by F. Detter and R. Heinzel, 1903.
  
  "Reading Þrymskviða" by Margaret Clunies Ross in The Poetic Edda: Essays on Old Norse Mythology, 2002.
  
  "Thrym" by Kathleen Jenks in Gods, Goddesses, and Mythology, 2005.