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Note to Framarr Lv 1VIII (Ket 34)

[8] ek em góðr valgöglum ‘I am good to corpse-geese [RAVENS/EAGLES]’: In 471 l. 8 reads: áðr ek valgögl vann. Kock (Skald) and Finnur Jónsson (Skj B) combine this reading in differing ways with the line in 343a: áðr vark góðr valgöglum (‘earlier I was good to corpse-geese’ Skj B); áðr vann ek valgöglum (‘earlier I provided for corpse-geese ...’, Skald; NN §2395). Edd. Min. and FSGJ prefer the reading of 340ˣ: óðr em ek valgöglum ‘I am zealous for the corpse-geese’. In all cases the emendation is motivated by the desire to bring the alliteration more into line with the ‘rules’, i.e. ara should alliterate rather than gladda, since ara is a noun (cf. von See 1967, 20). However since the reading in 343a is satisfactory from the point of view of grammar and content there is no reason to emend it. The only other poetic example of the cpd valgagl ‘corpse-goose’ (Tindr Hákdr 3/4I) is an emendation.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
  3. Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  4. NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  5. FSGJ = Guðni Jónsson, ed. 1954. Fornaldar sögur norðurlanda. 4 vols. [Reykjavík]: Íslendingasagnaútgáfan.
  6. Edd. Min. = Heusler, Andreas and Wilhelm Ranisch, eds. 1903. Eddica Minora: Dichtungen eddischer Art aus den Fornaldarsögur und anderen Prosawerken. Dortmund: Ruhfus. Rpt. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.
  7. See, Klaus von. 1967. Germanische Verskunst. Sammlung Metzler 67. Stuttgart: Metzler.
  8. Internal references
  9. Russell Poole (ed.) 2012, ‘Tindr Hallkelsson, Hákonardrápa 3’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 343.

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