Note to Skúli Svǫlðr 1^III

[1] þars leizk ekka vel ‘where sorrow thrived’: Lit. ‘where it seemed good to sorrow’; leizk is 3rd pers. sg. pret. indic. of lítask ‘look, seem, appear’ with ekka ‘sorrow’ as the dat. object in an impersonal construction. The last three words in l. 1 are corrupt in several mss. Skj B follows C but emends ms. ‘hellz’ to heltk and vel ‘well’ to val ‘falcon’, giving þats heltk val víðis gallópnis vel ‘that I fed the falcon of the sea of the eagle [BLOOD > RAVEN/EAGLE] well’. Kock suggests Vakðak velleiðs ekka ‘I woke sorrow of the gold-isthmus [SHIELD > BATTLE]’, but the shield-kenning is not convincing.

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