[3-4] liet snúða herferð ‘made battle hasten’: Ms. has ‘suid’, which Kahle (1898, 111) says means Raum, Platz ‘space, room’ (= Blöndal: 1 svið), without explaining how this fits the context. Finnur Jónsson (Skj B) emends to snúit and translates: foretog sig krigerfærd ‘engaged in battle’ (cf. LP: snúa 4). Kock (NN §2880) notes that this leaves the l. without skothending, and proposes instead emendation to snúða ‘to hasten, do quickly’ (cf. Þham Magndr 2/1,4II: lét ... fǫru snúðat ‘quickly undertook a journey’).
References
- Bibliography
- Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
- NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
- Kahle, Bernhard, ed. 1898. Isländische geistliche Dichtungen des ausgehenden Mittelalters. Heidelberg: Winter.
- Internal references
- Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Þorkell hamarskáld, Magnússdrápa 2’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 411.