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Note to Ásb Ævkv 2VIII (OStór 5)

[7-8] í öngvar þröngvar jötna ‘into the confining straits of giants’: It is assumed here that öngr ‘narrow, cramped, confining’ is an adj. and þröng is a f. pl. noun ‘narrowing, straits’ (as with LP: ǫngr, þrǫng f., 2), but it is possible, as Faulkes (2011b, 95 n.) points out, that the reverse is the case, with öngvar as a f. pl. noun, and þröng as an adj. The meaning would be the same in both cases.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
  3. Faulkes, Anthony. 2011b. Two Icelandic Stories: Hreiðars þáttr, Orms þáttr. New edition. London: Viking Society. First published [n. d. (1967)].

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