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Note to RvHbreiðm Hl 81III

[7] sval*fúr ‘the cool fire’: Both mss have svall fyr ‘increased before’. However, skjaldar (m. gen. sg.) ‘of the shield’ needs a base-word, and Kock’s suggestion (NN §2085) svalfúr ‘cool fire’ has been adopted in Hl 1941 and in the present edn. Finnur Jónsson (Skj B) emends to snjallr (m. nom. sg.) ‘brave’ and fúr (m. acc. sg.) ‘fire’, and takes snjallr as an adj. qualifying his kenning stillir Egða ‘lord of the Egðir’.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
  3. NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  4. Hl 1941 = Jón Helgason and Anne Holtsmark, eds. 1941. Háttalykill enn forni. BA 1. Copenhagen: Munksgaard.

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