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Note to Egill Frag 1III

[1, 2] varrar … varrar ‘the lips … of the wake’: Adopting A’s reading, this word, repeated in each line, must be gen. sg. or nom. or acc. pl. of vǫrr f. ‘lip’ or gen. sg. or nom. pl. of vǫrr m. ‘the pull of an oar, the wake created by an oar’. Given that lung ‘longship’ (l. 2) has a nautical sense, the second meaning seems more probable than the first in l. 2. Finnur Jónsson (TGT 1927, 100) suggested that varrar Gungnis ‘the lips of Gungnir’ in l. 1 might be a kenning for the edges of a spear, and that suggestion has been adopted tentatively here. If W’s reading is adopted, Várar might be the gen. sg. of the proper noun Vár, name of a goddess (cf. Gylf, SnE 2005, 29).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. TGT 1927 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1927b. Óláfr Þórðarson: Málhljóða- og málskrúðsrit. Grammatisk-retorisk afhandling. Det kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab. Historisk-filologiske meddelelser 13, 2. Copenhagen: Høst.
  3. SnE 2005 = Snorri Sturluson. 2005. Edda: Prologue and Gylfaginning. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2nd edn. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
  4. Internal references
  5. (forthcoming), ‘ Snorri Sturluson, Gylfaginning’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=113> (accessed 16 May 2024)

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