[2] móðsefa ‘of the mind’: In R, ‘með seva’ ‘with mind’ has been corrected to ‘moð seva’ (R*). The cpd móðsefi is otherwise unattested in Old Norse, but cf. OE mōdsefa ‘mind, spirit, heart, character’ (Beowulf 2008, 414).
References
- Bibliography
- Beowulf 2008 = Fulk, Robert D., Robert E. Bjork and John D. Niles, eds. 2008. Klaeber’s Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburg. 4th rev. edn of Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburg, ed. Fr. Klaeber. Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press.