[5-6]: Apart from CPB, FSN, Ragn 1891, FSGJ and Ragn 1985, previous eds reverse the order of hendr and hennar here, presumably in order to give l. 5 six rather than five syllables. The present ed. follows those just named in retaining the 1824b reading (as opposed to that of 762ˣ, which has the Modern Icelandic disyllabic form hendur), accepting it as another of the metrical anomalies that characterise the stanzas of Ragn.
References
- Bibliography
- FSN = Rafn, Carl Christian, ed. 1829-30. Fornaldar sögur nordrlanda. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Popp.
- CPB = Gudbrand Vigfusson [Guðbrandur Vigfússon] and F. York Powell, eds. 1883. Corpus poeticum boreale: The Poetry of the Old Northern Tongue from the Earliest Times to the Thirteenth Century. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon. Rpt. 1965, New York: Russell & Russell.
- FSGJ = Guðni Jónsson, ed. 1954. Fornaldar sögur norðurlanda. 4 vols. [Reykjavík]: Íslendingasagnaútgáfan.
- Ragn 1985 = Örnólfur Thorsson 1985, 101-53.
- Ragn 1891 = 2nd edn (pp. 175-224) of Ragn as ed. in Valdimar Ásmundarson 1885-9, I.
- Internal references
- 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Ragnars saga loðbrókar’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 616. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=81> (accessed 7 May 2024)