[7] dæsinn dreng ‘the sluggish man’: The form dæsinn appears only in 471, while 343a and 340ˣ have the reading ‘drasinn’, a form unattested elsewhere. Finnur Jónsson and Kock regard dæsinn as correct (cf. CPB II, 558), and as a variant of the adj. dásinn ‘sluggish’ (LP: dásinn and dæsinn), attested in the negative form ódæsinn ‘unsluggish’ in Arn Magndr 10/2II and Note there, with the vowel secured by aðalhending with ræsir ‘ruler’.
References
- Bibliography
- LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
- CPB = Gudbrand Vigfusson [Guðbrandur Vigfússon] and F. York Powell, eds. 1883. Corpus poeticum boreale: The Poetry of the Old Northern Tongue from the Earliest Times to the Thirteenth Century. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon. Rpt. 1965, New York: Russell & Russell.
- Internal references
- Diana Whaley (ed.) 2009, ‘Arnórr jarlaskáld Þórðarson, Magnússdrápa 10’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 219-20.