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Note to Rloð Lv 6VIII (Ragn 10)

[7] hvass ‘keen as he is’: CPB, FSN, and Ragn 1891 retain here the 1824b reading hauss, i.e. hǫss ‘grey, dark’, which makes little sense in the context; all other eds have hvass ‘keen’, an appropriate adj. for Sigurðr Ragnarsson, since it may also be used of keen-seeing eyes (LP: hvass 2; CVC: hvass II. 2). This reading is supported by 147 and is not treated here as an emendation. As Olsen (1906-8, xv-xvi) notes, ‑au- is not infrequent in 1824b as a (mis)spelling of ‑- or -va-.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. FSN = Rafn, Carl Christian, ed. 1829-30. Fornaldar sögur nordrlanda. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Popp.
  3. 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.
  4. CVC = Cleasby, Richard, Gudbrand Vigfusson [Guðbrandur Vigfússon] and W. A. Craigie. 1957. An Icelandic-English Dictionary. 2nd edn. Oxford: Clarendon.
  5. 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.
  6. Olsen, Magnus, ed. 1906-8. Vǫlsunga saga ok Ragnars saga loðbrókar. SUGNL 36. Copenhagen: Møller.
  7. Internal references
  8. 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 5 May 2024)

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