[1] þróttarstrǫngum ‘strong in valour’: (a) The two elements are treated here as a cpd. This seems likely in light of other compounds in which a reference to warlike deeds in the gen. qualifies strangr: Sigv Berv 13/2II heiptarstrangr ‘vengeful’ and Sturl Hryn 7/4II sóknarstrangr ‘war-fierce’; there are also several further compounds in -strangr (LP: strangr). (b) The two elements could alternatively be regarded as a phrase with the adj. strangr governing the gen. (cf. NS §§136-8, though the examples do not include strangr).
References
- Bibliography
- 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.
- NS = Nygaard, Marius. 1906. Norrøn syntax. Kristiania (Oslo): Aschehoug. Rpt. 1966.
- Internal references
- Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Sigvatr Þórðarson, Bersǫglisvísur 13’ 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, pp. 24-5.
- Valgerður Erna Þorvaldsdóttir (ed.) 2009, ‘Sturla Þórðarson, Hrynhenda 7’ 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. 684.