Note to Framarr Lv 1VIII (Ket 34)
[4] í blóðæðar mínar ‘into my blood vessels’: Ms. 471 has the reading blóðæðar, i.e. the acc. pl. of the cpd blóðæðr, which is only attested here in Old Norse. In 343a the two words are written apart: blóð æðar. Compounds are often written this way in mss. However, it is also possible that the words æðar minar are regarded as a phrase in the f. gen. sg. in this ms; minar (with a short <i>) is attested as a form for the f. gen. sg. instead of minnar (cf. ANG §467 Anm. 2). Skj B and Skald delete the word blóð ‘blood’ in order to produce a regular metrical line: í æðar mínar ‘into my veins’. Edd. Min. deletes the pers. pron. mínar: í blóðæðar ‘into blood vessels’. Ms. 173ˣ and several other mss have the reading í sára flæði ‘into the flood of wounds’; sára flæðr is a blood-kenning of a conventional type (Meissner 204-7). The long-line færir hann sínar greipar | gular í sára flæði could be regarded as having chiastic alliteration on <f> and <g>.
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