[5] kynför ‘an extraordinary journey’: Larsson (Frið 1901, 32 n.) suggested this interpretation of this hap. leg. cpd (510 has ‘kynuor’), with the first element kyn- meaning ‘extraordinary, wonderful, marvellous’. This interpretation was adopted by Edd. Min. and Skald, but Finnur Jónsson emended to kynfylgja, which he translated as slægtsnatur ‘the nature of the stock [of the brave men]’.
References
- Bibliography
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- Edd. Min. = Heusler, Andreas and Wilhelm Ranisch, eds. 1903. Eddica Minora: Dichtungen eddischer Art aus den Fornaldarsögur und anderen Prosawerken. Dortmund: Ruhfus. Rpt. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.
- Frið 1901 = Larsson, Ludvig, ed. 1901. Friðþjófs saga ins frœkna. ASB 9. Halle: Niemeyer.