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Note to stanza1. 35. Þórðr Kolbeinsson, Eiríksdrápa, 3 [Vol. 1, 493] [4] hót ‘somewhat’: I.e., by litotes, Eiríkr launches high stems with full force against Sigvaldi (so also ÍF 26; Konráð Gíslason 1892, 67-9). All mss except FskBˣ (and 51ˣ and 302ˣ, the other two copies of NRA51) have hót ‘a bit, a (significant) something’. In ON, this word is found in the dat. or gen. case (hóti, hóts) with adverbial sense (LP: 2. hót; CVC: hót n.), but ModIcel. also retains adverbial hót (usually in the phrase ekki hót ‘not at all, not a bit’), and it is understood adverbially here, qualifying setti at móti ‘directed against’. Skj B and Skald prefer the adverbial gen. hóts (‘hoz’), the reading of FskBˣ, taking hóts hôva stafna ‘very high stems’ together. A further, remote, possibility is to read hót as the word for ‘threat’ (LP: 1. hót; see Note to l. 3 hôva above). referencesSkj B = Finnur Jónsson ed.… ∙ is referred to in ∙ ÞKolb Eirdr 3, n. 4 (SkP 1) Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin ed. 194… ∙ is referred to in ∙ ÞKolb Eirdr 3, n. 4 (SkP 1) LP = Finnur Jónsson ed. 1931. Lex… ∙ is referred to in ∙ ÞKolb Eirdr 3, n. 4 (SkP 1) CVC = Cleasby, Richard et al. 195… ∙ is referred to in ∙ ÞKolb Eirdr 3, n. 4 (SkP 1) ÍF 26-8 = Bjarni Aðalbjarn… ∙ is referred to in ∙ ÞKolb Eirdr 3, n. 4 (SkP 1) Konráð Gíslason ed. 1892. Udvalg af oldn… ∙ is referred to in ∙ ÞKolb Eirdr 3, n. 4 (SkP 1) AM 51 fol ∙ is referred to in ∙ ÞKolb Eirdr 3, n. 4 (SkP 1) AM 302 4° ∙ is referred to in ∙ ÞKolb Eirdr 3, n. 4 (SkP 1) OsloUB 371 fol ∙ is referred to in ∙ ÞKolb Eirdr 3, n. 4 (SkP 1) |
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