[4] þverris svika ‘diminisher of falsehoods [VIRTUOUS RULER = Christ]’: Restoration of ‘err’ based upon 399a-bˣ, supported by traces of the missing letters around the lacuna and by aðalhending. Skj B, followed by Skald, emends ms. acc. (or dat.) to gen. þverris. Cf. angrþverrir ‘grief-diminisher’ (of the Holy Ghost) Heildr 15/2 and þverrir flærðar ‘diminisher of falsehood’ Pl 7/3 (both C12th).
References
- Bibliography
- Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- Internal references
- Katrina Attwood (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Heilags anda drápa 15’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 465.
- Jonna Louis-Jensen and Tarrin Wills (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Plácitusdrápa 7’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 186-7.