The Bearded Bride

An edition, with stanza-by-stanza commentary and translation, of the late-medieval Icelandic rmur cycle rymlur, which is based on the story of the Eddic poem rymskvia, in which the god rr disguises himself as the goddess Freyja to retrieve his stolen hammer from the giants. An extensive introduction examines the relationship between these poems as well as ballad analogues, and gives an account of the poetics of rymlur and the rmur genre in general. A glossary is provided.