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Note to stanza1. 57. Bjarni byskup Kolbeinsson, Jómsvíkingadrápa, 24 [Vol. 1, 980] [8] nakkvara snertu ‘in a certain short attack’: (a) Snerta in prose means ‘a short stretch of time or place’, i.e. a short time or distance (Fritzner: snerta 1, 2); in poetry it most often means a sharp, relatively short attack, or a whole battle (LP: snerta 1, 2), and the sense ‘attack’ is appropriate here. Nakkvara snertu makes a f. acc. sg. phrase which appears to be quasi-temporal and used adverbially, cf. expressions such as fara dag ok nótt ‘to travel day and night’ (NS §98a). (b) Jvs 1879 notes that the abbreviation at the end of the word is unclear but that the reading is not ‘sinnum’. Fms 11 prints sinnum ‘at times’, dat. pl. of sinn ‘time’; so also Wisén (1870, 82). This is grammatically incompatible with the preceding word nakkvara ‘some, a certain’, which must be m. acc. pl. or f. acc. sg. Sveinbjörn Egilsson’s gloss nokkrum in Fms 12 equates this with dat. pl., but this is doubtful. referencesFms = Sveinbjörn Egilsson eds. 18… ∙ is referred to in ∙ Bjbp Jóms 24, n. 8 (SkP 1) LP = Finnur Jónsson ed. 1931. Lex… ∙ is referred to in ∙ Bjbp Jóms 24, n. 8 (SkP 1) Fritzner = Fritzner, Johan. 1883-… ∙ is referred to in ∙ Bjbp Jóms 24, n. 8 (SkP 1) NS = Nygaard, Marius. 1906. Norrø… ∙ is referred to in ∙ Bjbp Jóms 24, n. 8 (SkP 1) Jvs 1879 = Petersens, Carl… ∙ is referred to in ∙ Bjbp Jóms 24, n. 8 (SkP 1) Wisén, Theodor ed. 1870. Úrval af norræn… ∙ is referred to in ∙ Bjbp Jóms 24, n. 8 (SkP 1) |
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