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Note to Sturl Hrafn 14II

[8] lífdvalar (f. gen. sg.) ‘of life’s duration’: So Skj B. Hap. leg. Kock (NN §1358) takes this as an acc. pl., as an object of fekk ‘gave’ (l. 5), and he translates fekk … öldum lífdvalar as satte … stopp för männens liv ‘put … an end to men’s lives’. That translation is possible but untenable because of Kock’s misinterpretation of felli ‘slayer’ (see Note to felli ‘slayer’ (l. 6) above).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
  3. NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.

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