[8] þegar munninn líðr ‘as soon as they leave the mouth’: Lit. ‘as soon as the mouth closes’. The clause is impersonal, with munninn ‘the mouth’ as the acc. object (see Fritzner: líða 4). Cf. Vápnfirðinga saga (Vápnf ch. 7, ÍF 11, 40): Ferr orð, er munn líðr ‘A word travels when it leaves the mouth’. Wisén (1886-9, I) emends the Mhkv line accordingly: orðit ferr þás of munn líðr ‘a word travels when it leaves the mouth’.
References
- Bibliography
- Wisén, Theodor, ed. 1886-9. Carmina Norrœnæ: Ex reliquiis vetustioris norrœnæ poësis selecta, recognita, commentariis et glossario instructa. 2 vols. Lund: Ohlsson.
- Fritzner = Fritzner, Johan. 1883-96. Ordbog over det gamle norske sprog. 3 vols. Kristiania (Oslo): Den norske forlagsforening. 4th edn. Rpt. 1973. Oslo etc.: Universitetsforlaget.
- ÍF 11 = Austfirðinga sǫgur. Ed. Jón Jóhannesson. 1950.
- Internal references
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- Roberta Frank 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Málsháttakvæði’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1213. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1029> (accessed 10 May 2024)