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Note to Máni Lv 5III

[2] drengjum ‘the young men’: Drengr is taken here in the meaning ‘young man’ as juxtaposed to the slouching old man with a grey beard. For the different meanings of drengr, see Goetting (2006). The R variant, drengum, presupposes that the word was inflected as an a-stem rather than an i-stem here, which is unusual but not impossible (see ANG §389 Anm. 4).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. ANG = Noreen, Adolf. 1923. Altnordische Grammatik I: Altisländische und altnorwegische Grammatik (Laut- und Flexionslehre) unter Berücksichtigung des Urnordischen. 4th edn. Halle: Niemeyer. 1st edn. 1884. 5th unrev. edn. 1970. Tübingen: Niemeyer.
  3. Goetting, Lauren. 2006. ‘Þegn and drengr in the Viking Age’. SS 78, 375-404.

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