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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Anon (FoGT) 21III

[2] fyr vild sína ‘for her goodwill’: This phrase can either be construed as part of a rel. clause, er eg leyfi fyr vild sína, as here, or with mær er þín, as Björn Magnússon Ólsen does (FoGT 1884, 270-1), understanding it to imply ‘of her own free will’.  Wellendorf (forthcoming) also supports this interpretation. The imagined scenario is presumably that of a woman giving a man permission to woo the girl, perhaps her daughter, in marriage.

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  2. FoGT 1884 = Björn Magnússon Ólsen, ed. 1884. Den tredje og fjærde grammatiske afhandling i Snorres Edda tilligemed de grammatiske afhandlingers prolog og to andre tillæg. SUGNL 12. Copenhagen: Knudtzon.

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