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Note to SnSt Ht 62III

[1] snýr ‘turns’: The verb snýr can be the 3rd pers. sg. pres. indic. of the verb snúa ‘turn’ or of a verb meaning ‘snow’ (*snjóa ‘snow’; OE, OHG snīwan) attested only in the 3rd pers. sg. pres. indic. and p. p. (snivinn) (see AEW: snivinn; snýr). The latter verb does not take a personal subject (see e.g. Eyv Lv 12/1I). Following Konráð Gíslason (1895-7), Finnur Jónsson (Skj B but apparently not in LP: snýja) construes an unattested inf. of a weak verb *snýja and takes tiggi ‘lord’ as the subject ‘the lord makes it snow’ (so also SnE 2007, 149), whereas Kock (NN §191) interprets snýr as pres. indic. of snúa. It may well be that Snorri invented a weak verb *snýja to preserve the battle/weather imagery (see Notes to st. 61/1 above), but because such a verb is otherwise unattested, the present edn follows Kock. For snúa e-u á e-n ‘turn sth. toward sby’, see Fritzner: snúa á 1.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
  3. NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  4. AEW = Vries, Jan de. 1962. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2nd rev. edn. Rpt. 1977. Leiden: Brill.
  5. 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.
  6. Fritzner = Fritzner, Johan. 1883-96. Ordbog over det gamle norske sprog. 3 vols. Kristiania (Oslo): Den norske forlagsforening. 4th edn. Rpt. 1973. Oslo etc.: Universitetsforlaget.
  7. Konráð Gíslason. 1895-7. Efterladte skrifter. 2 vols. I: Forelæsninger over oldnordiske skjaldekvad. II: Forelæsninger og videnskablige afhandlinger. Copenhagen: Gyldendal.
  8. SnE 2007 = Snorri Sturluson. 2007. Edda: Háttatal. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2nd edn. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
  9. Internal references
  10. Russell Poole (ed.) 2012, ‘Eyvindr skáldaspillir Finnsson, Lausavísur 12’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 231.

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