[7] dœgr ‘night’: Finnur Jónsson explains as referring to half the duration of the twenty-four hour cycle, in this context the night (LP: dœgr); cf. ONP: dǿgr 1, which is glossed ‘period of 12 hours [of a day or a night]’. Kock (NN §30) alternatively proposes ‘day after day’, which may also be correct: dag oc dægr occurs in Stjórn (Unger 1862, 417) as a rendering of Lat. per multos dies (ONP: dǿgr 1).
References
- Bibliography
- NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- Unger, C. R., ed. 1862. Stjorn. Gammelnorsk bibelhistorie fra verdens skabelse til det babyloniske fangenskab. Christiania (Oslo): Feilberg og Landmarks forlag.
- 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.
- ONP = Degnbol, Helle et al., eds. 1989-. A Dictionary of Old Norse Prose / Ordbog over det norrøne prosasprog. 1-. Copenhagen: The Arnamagnæan Commission.
- Internal references
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