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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Anon Eirm 2I

[1-2] es mér vánir ‘I expect’: Lit. ‘[there] is to me expectations’. The sg. verb disagrees with the pl. subject vánir ‘expectations’, but such lack of concord is not uncommon in skaldic poetry, and in prose when the verb precedes its subject (NS §66 Anm. 3). Emendation to eru ‘are’ (so Árni Magnússon in 761bˣ; Möbius 1860; Ulset 1975, 41) is therefore unnecessary.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. NS = Nygaard, Marius. 1906. Norrøn syntax. Kristiania (Oslo): Aschehoug. Rpt. 1966.
  3. Ulset, Tor. 1975. Merknader til en del skaldedikt. Oslo: Novus.
  4. Möbius, Theodor. 1860. Edda Sæmundar hins fróða. Mit einem Anhang bisher ungedruckter Gedichte. Leipzig: Hinrichs.

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