Note to RvHbreiðm Hl 18III
[6]: The reading ‘at flæg væita’ is difficult to restore. Veita is an obvious misreading of peita ‘spear’ (Rugman mistook <p> for insular <v>; see also sts 44/9, 56/1, 67/2). Peita is a spear, and the word is first attested with this meaning in Eþver Lv 1/8I, dated to 1024. ON Peita is the name for Poitou, which was famous for its spears (Falk 1914b, 75; Þul Spjóts l. 8). Previous eds interpret ‘at flæg’ variously as ørlyg ‘shield’ (Skj B) and at flaug ‘after the flight’ (Skald; NN §1159). SnE 1848, 240 has at flög ‘in the swarm’ (?), which is difficult to make sense of. However, the metre requires the nominal syllable in position 4 to be short if the word in position 3 is a form word (at flug ‘after the flight’ would be possible). Holtsmark (Hl 1941) suggested a cpd adj. atfleyg ‘soaring’ with a heavy dip in position 4. That reading makes the most sense from a palaeographical point of view and has been adopted here. For [ey] rendered as <æ> in papp25ˣ and R683ˣ, see Hl 1941, 105.
References
- Bibliography
- Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
- SnE 1848 = Sveinbjörn Egilsson, ed. 1848. Edda Snorra Sturlusonar, eða Gylfaginning, Skáldskaparmál og Háttatal. Reykjavík: Prentsmiðja landsins.
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- Falk, Hjalmar. 1914b. Altnordische Waffenkunde. Videnskapsselskapets skrifter, II. Hist.-filos. kl. 1914, 6. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.
- Hl 1941 = Jón Helgason and Anne Holtsmark, eds. 1941. Háttalykill enn forni. BA 1. Copenhagen: Munksgaard.
- Internal references
- Diana Whaley (ed.) 2012, ‘Einarr þveræingr Eyjólfsson, Lausavísa 1’ 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. 804.
- Elena Gurevich 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Spjóts heiti’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 816. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=3197> (accessed 16 April 2024)