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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Anon (Ragn) 6VIII (Ragn 36)

[3] hvar ‘where’: This interpretation is the most straightforward, requiring no emendation. To read ms. ‘hvar’ as hvárr produces a natural phrase hvárr okkar ‘both of us, each of us two’, which is adopted (with spelling variants) by CPB, Rafn (FSN) and Örnólfur Thorsson (Ragn 1985). However, it involves virtual duplication of hváðarr ‘which of two’ in l. 4. Other eds emend here to hvat ‘what’, n. acc. sg. of the interrog. pron. hverr ‘who, which’, making it the object of hefir unnit ‘has achieved’ in l. 3.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. FSN = Rafn, Carl Christian, ed. 1829-30. Fornaldar sögur nordrlanda. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Popp.
  3. 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.
  4. Ragn 1985 = Örnólfur Thorsson 1985, 101-53.

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