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Note to Anon (LaufE) 3III

[1, 2] grandi svanna ‘the harm of women’: Svanna is oblique sg. or gen. pl., and it is difficult to accommodate syntactically except as a part of the noun phrase grandi svanna, taken here to mean ‘harm caused by women’, perhaps by their spreading rumours or by cursing. Cf. Nj ch. 116, ÍF 12, 292: eru kǫld kvenna ráð ‘cold is the counsel of women’, as well as Queen Gunnhildr cursing Hrútr and causing his future impotence (Nj ch. 6, ÍF 12, 21).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. ÍF 12 = Brennu-Njáls saga. Ed. Einar Ólafur Sveinsson. 1954.
  3. Internal references
  4. 2022, ‘ Anonymous, Njáls saga’ in Margaret Clunies Ross, Kari Ellen Gade and Tarrin Wills (eds), Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 5. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 1220-1313. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=55> (accessed 14 May 2024)

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