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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to ESk Frag 10III

[3] stǫg (n. nom. pl.) ‘the stays’: So all other mss. Stǫng ‘pole’ (R) violates both the syntax (the subject is sg. and verb is pl.) and the metre because metrical position 4 cannot be occupied by a long nominal syllable in lines of this type (see Gade 1995a, 85-7). The stay is a rope that supports the mast (see Falk 1912, 59; Jesch 2001a, 165).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Gade, Kari Ellen. 1995a. The Structure of Old Norse dróttkvætt Poetry. Islandica 49. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
  3. Jesch, Judith. 2001a. Ships and Men in the Late Viking Age: The Vocabulary of Runic Inscriptions and Skaldic Verse. Woodbridge: Boydell.
  4. Falk, Hjalmar. 1912. Altnordisches Seewesen. Wörter und Sachen 4. Heidelberg: Winter.

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