Note to RvHbreiðm Hl 69^III

[6] benskóð ‘wound-weapon [SWORD]’: This noun is n., and according to the adj. it is qualified by, breið ‘broad’ (l. 8), it should be n. pl. or f. sg. However, the verb beit ‘bit’ (l. 5) is in the sg. Skj B suggests an impersonal construction (beit skjǫld ‘the shield was bitten’), but the verb bíta is otherwise not attested in impersonal constructions, and, furthermore, st. 77/5-6 contains an almost identical clause: þuðr brandr beit skjǫld ‘the slender sword bit the shield’. Holtsmark (Hl 1941) emends beit (3rd pers. sg. pret. indic.) to bitu (3rd pers. pl. pret. indic.), which results in an unmetrical line (resolution in position 3). It is possible that skóð ‘weapon’ could have had a variant f. form (see bráð ‘haste’ st. 66/3).

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