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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to SnSt Ht 20III

[7] vísa ‘the leader’: The noun is taken here as the object of the verb lýsa lit. ‘light up, illuminate’ (l. 8). It could also be a gen. with iðjur ‘actions’ (l. 7): iðjur vísa lýsa ‘the actions of the leader shine’ (see SnE 1879-81, I, 76 and NN §2571).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  3. SnE 1879-81 = Möbius, Theodor, ed. 1879-81. Hattatal Snorra Sturlusonar. 2 vols. Halle an de Saale: Verlag der Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses.

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