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Note to RvHbreiðm Hl 23III

[4]: The line is too short (fornyrðislag, Type C2) and does not contain the expected internal rhyme. Rugman’s copies do not indicate that anything is missing between ll. 4 and 5. Kock suggests the reading sǫgu frá þeiri hagt ‘a story from it (i.e. Svipdagr’s story) skilfully’. Jón Helgason (Hl 1941) adds of lǫg ‘from across the sea’ (frá sǫgu þeiri of lǫg ‘about that story from across the sea’), which, according to him, indicates that Hl was composed in Iceland or in Orkney (Hl 1941). Neither suggestion is satisfactory from a metrical point of view.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Hl 1941 = Jón Helgason and Anne Holtsmark, eds. 1941. Háttalykill enn forni. BA 1. Copenhagen: Munksgaard.
  3. Internal references
  4. Kari Ellen Gade 2017, ‘ Rǫgnvaldr jarl and Hallr Þórarinsson, Háttalykill’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1001. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1347> (accessed 16 April 2024)

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