Note to Gamlkan Has 7^VII

[7] dýrðhittandi dróttinn ‘glory-finding Lord’: Cf. Anon Pl 18/1, where the epithet dýrðhittir ‘glory-finder’, used of Plácitus, alliterates with dróttinn. Although neither dýrðhittir nor dýrðhittandi is attested elsewhere, LP: dýrðhittir compares dáðhittir ‘finder of [good] deeds’, which is used of Bishop Páll Jónsson by ÁmÁrn Lv 3/1^IV (see also Attwood 1996b, 227). Once again, the alliteration is with dróttinn. With Finnur Jónsson (Skj B), Kock (NN §2929), Kempff (1867, 26), Rydberg (1907, xxvi) and Sveinbjǫrn Egilsson (444ˣ) this edn takes dýrðhittandi as adjectival, paralleling dáðrakkr and qualifying dróttinn. Jón Helgason (1935-6, 254) objects to this interpretation on the grounds that dýrðhittir is not ‘a suitable expression’ for God and that, in Pl, the epithet denotes Plácitus, not God. Jón therefore emends dróttinn to drótta, gen. pl. of drótt ‘people, company’, asserting that dróttinn is a straightforward scribal error. Dýrðhittandi drótta is understood to mean ‘people who attain blessedness’, and is construed with an emended sinnir in l. 5, to give the God-kenning dáðrakkr sinnir dýrðhittandi drótta ‘valiant helper of men who are striving for glory’. Jón has, however, overlooked the epithet dýrðargjarn ‘glory-eager’ (st. 34/4), which is an exact parallel for dýrðhittandi.

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