Bjbp Jóms 23I/2 — atróðr ‘attack’
Ein drepr fyr mér allri
atróðr mikinn ...
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ítrmanns kona teiti.
Góð ætt of kemr grimmu
glygg magnaðisk eggja
…
gœðings at mér stríði.
Ein kona ítrmanns drepr allri teiti fyr mér; mikinn atróðr … . Góð ætt gœðings of kemr grimmu stríði at mér; glygg eggja magnaðisk …
A certain nobleman’s wife kills all joy for me; a great attack … . The good kinswoman of a chieftain brings cruel torment upon me; the gale of blades [BATTLE] intensified …
readings
[2] atróðr mikinn: ‘[…]’ R, atróðr mikinn RCP, RFJ
notes
[2] mikinn atróðr ‘a great attack’: This acc. phrase is followed by a finite verb. Jvs 1879, 112-13 adds ‘gniþv’ and prints gníðu in the normalised text (see LP: gnýja ‘resound, rumble’), though with the reservation that the word is very difficult to make out, and could be ‘grimþv’, or possibly ‘greiþv’ or ‘greiþa’. Fms 11 conjectures ‘grimðu’ (cf. perhaps CVC: grimmask ‘chafe, be furious’), though the prose order in Fms 12 reads greiðu. Skj A reads ‘giorþv’ (normalised gjǫrðu ‘(they) did, made’), while Skj B, following Konráð Gíslason (1877, 35), conjectures greiða; cf. CVC: greiða, which glosses greiða atróðr as ‘to attack (in a sea-fight)’. This, as Kock (NN §2819) notes, would supply the necessary skothending for the line but would be a pres. tense verb set amidst pret. narration; he suggests instead kníðu ‘pressed, drove’.