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Note to RvHbreiðm Hl 66III

[3] skýrstr ‘wisest’: Cf. Note to Ólhv Hryn 3/7II. The ms. readings, ‘scurstr’ (papp25ˣ) and ‘scurstur’ (R683ˣ), appear to be misreadings of skýrstr, though Holtsmark (Hl 1941, 105) suggests that it may have been orthographic (<u> for [y]).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Hl 1941 = Jón Helgason and Anne Holtsmark, eds. 1941. Háttalykill enn forni. BA 1. Copenhagen: Munksgaard.
  3. Internal references
  4. Lauren Goetting (ed.) 2009, ‘Óláfr hvítaskáld Þórðarson, Hrynhenda 3’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 660-1.

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