[4] Sigurðar ‘of Sigurðr’: The line is unmetrical as it stands, but would become metrical if the older form of the name, Sigvarðar, were restored (cf. Kuhn 1939, 199-203). See Bragi Rdr 2/3-4III and Note there.
References
- Bibliography
- Kuhn, Hans (1899). 1939. ‘Westgermanisches in der altnordischen Verskunst’. BGDSL 63, 178-236. Rpt. in Kuhn (1899) 1969-78, I, 485-527.
- Internal references
- Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Bragi inn gamli Boddason, Ragnarsdrápa 2’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 30.