Note to Sturl Hákkv 13^II

[6, 8] hafði of skipaz fyr vígliði ‘had arrayed themselves against the battle-host’: So NN §1353. Skj B retains the reading of E, F, 42ˣ (of skipat (l. 8)) and gives the following translation: havde opstillet deres mandskab, rede til kamp ‘had arrayed their troops, ready for fight’. As Kock points out, the syntax of that ON cl. is not clear (the verb skipa ‘array’ requires an object, and öld Skúla ‘Skúli’s men’ (l. 7) is the subject). The E, F, 42ˣ version of this helmingr must be an attempt at syntactic simplification, treating vegstórr (m. nom. sg.) ‘the one great in honour’ (l. 5) as the subject of the cl.: þá er vegstórr hafði of skipat öld Skúla fyr vígliði ‘when the one great in honour (i.e. Skúli) had arrayed Skúli’s men against the battle-host’.

References

© Skaldic Project Academic Body and Brepols, unless otherwise noted. Database structure and interface developed by Tarrin Wills. All users of material on this database are reminded that its content may be either subject to copyright restrictions or is the property of the custodians of linked databases that have given permission for members of the skaldic project to use their material for research purposes. Those users who have been given access to as yet unpublished material are further reminded that they may not use, publish or otherwise manipulate such material except with the express permission of the individual editor of the material in question and the General Editor of the volume in which the material is to be published. Applications for permission to use such material should be made in the first instance to the General Editor of the volume in question. All information that appears in the published volumes has been thoroughly reviewed. If you believe some information here is incorrect please contact Tarrin Wills with full details.

Cookies on our website

Note to Sturl Hákkv 13^II

References

Log in

Cookies on our website

Note to Sturl Hákkv 13II

References

Log in

Note to Sturl Hákkv 13^II