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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to SnSt Ht 94III

[2] søri ‘sowed’: This is a short-stemmed disyllabic verb that receives full stress, and we must assume resolution, which makes the line hypometrical (it is difficult to imagine suspended resolution in two consecutive metrical positions søri Kraki). Sievers’s rendition of this line, gulli séri Kraki framr (Sievers 1879, 272), is obscure. If Snorri had used the weak pret. form of the verb ‘sow’ (sáði, see ANG §506 Anm. 1), the metre would be restored.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. ANG = Noreen, Adolf. 1923. Altnordische Grammatik I: Altisländische und altnorwegische Grammatik (Laut- und Flexionslehre) unter Berücksichtigung des Urnordischen. 4th edn. Halle: Niemeyer. 1st edn. 1884. 5th unrev. edn. 1970. Tübingen: Niemeyer.
  3. Sievers, Eduard. 1879. ‘Beiträge zur Skaldenmetrik II’. BGDSL 6, 264-376.

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