[6] †ordo† ‘…’: This could be construed as orðum (n. dat. pl.) ‘words’. Kock’s (NN §3114) suggestion urðu (3rd pers. pl. pret. indic. of verða ‘become’) is not supported by the orthography of the mss. Hl 1941 gives ǫrðugt, translated as fjentlig ‘enmious’, but that remains conjectural.
References
- Bibliography
- NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- Hl 1941 = Jón Helgason and Anne Holtsmark, eds. 1941. Háttalykill enn forni. BA 1. Copenhagen: Munksgaard.