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Note to Anon (TGT) 37III

[1] ekl ‘lacking’: This reading of ekl as an adj. follows Skj B. The word, not otherwise attested, is related to the f. noun ekla ‘lack’ and the adv. ekla ‘scarcely’. (Sturtevant 1933, 96 derives the noun from the adj. *ain-kil- > MLG ēnkel.) Sveinbjörn Egilsson (SnE 1848-87, III) takes ekl as an adv. (cf. AEW: ekl, ekla) and reads Ógn vara síðan ekl óblíð ‘The fighting was not a little unpleasant then’. This reading produces more subtle litotes. Along similar lines, Björn Magnússon Ólsen (TGT 1884, 228) sees a second instance of tmesis in *eklóblíð, an antonym to allóblíðr, but *allóblíðr appears to be a ghost word in CVC (cf. ONP: allóblíðr).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. TGT 1884 = Björn Magnússon Ólsen, ed. 1884. Den tredje og fjærde grammatiske afhandling i Snorres Edda tilligemed de grammatiske afhandlingers prolog og to andre tillæg. SUGNL 12. Copenhagen: Knudtzon.
  3. Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
  4. SnE 1848-87 = Snorri Sturluson. 1848-87. Edda Snorra Sturlusonar: Edda Snorronis Sturlaei. Ed. Jón Sigurðsson et al. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Legatum Arnamagnaeanum. Rpt. Osnabrück: Zeller, 1966.
  5. AEW = Vries, Jan de. 1962. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2nd rev. edn. Rpt. 1977. Leiden: Brill.
  6. CVC = Cleasby, Richard, Gudbrand Vigfusson [Guðbrandur Vigfússon] and W. A. Craigie. 1957. An Icelandic-English Dictionary. 2nd edn. Oxford: Clarendon.
  7. ONP = Degnbol, Helle et al., eds. 1989-. A Dictionary of Old Norse Prose / Ordbog over det norrøne prosasprog. 1-. Copenhagen: The Arnamagnæan Commission.
  8. Sturtevant, Albert Morey. 1933. ‘Old Norse Etymologies’. JEGP 34, 89-97.

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