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Note to Anon Krm 3VIII

[4] ruðum tr ‘we reddened the sword’: The present ed. emends the mss’ ‘tír’ (variants ‘tyr’, ‘tÿr’) to tjör, taking this as acc. sg. of tjörr m. ‘sword’ (so Falk 1925c, 126; Heggstad et al. 2008: tjǫrr m.; and most eds) rather than as tjör f. ‘spear’ (as suggested in LP: 2. tjǫr). Whether m. acc. sg. tjör ‘the sword’ is here to be understood as having pl. (collective) or sg. reference depends on whether ruðum ‘we reddened’ is taken as referring to the speaker and his companions, or solely to the speaker. Rafn (1826) avoided emendation by assuming an acc. sg. form Týr of the god-name Týr, thought of as spelt Týrr m. nom., but this does not make sense in context. There is little evidence for Rafn’s further suggestion that the name is here a poetic word for ‘sword’.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. 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.
  3. Falk, Hjalmar. 1925c. ‘Svensk ordforskning (Elof Hellquist: Svensk etymologisk ordbok)’. ANF 41, 113-39.
  4. Rafn, Carl Christian, ed. 1826. Krakas Maal eller Kvad om Kong Ragnar Lodbroks Krigsbedrifter og Heltedød efter en gammel Skindbog og flere hidtil ubenyttede Haandskrifter med dansk, latinsk og fransk oversættelse, forskjellige Læsemaader, samt kritiske og philologiske Anmærkninger. Copenhagen: Jens Hostrup Schultz; London: John and Arthur Arch.

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