Note to Ólhv Frag 9III
[3] gat endr ‘was once’: It is very difficult to make sense of the mss’ reading endr at ‘again/once at/to’ here. Björn Magnússon Ólsen (TGT 1884, 237), followed by Skj B, emends to andar, creating a kenning for ‘sin’, reading: en grœðari alls meins andar kallask eplit hreina kindar Jesse ‘and the healer of all injury of the soul [SIN > = Christ] is called the pure apple of Jesse’s kin’. The present emendation was proposed by Louis-Jensen (1981) and is more conservative than Björn’s, retaining endr and adding one letter to at. Additionally it provides an appropriate example of paradigma in the parallel of er mynduð ‘is (metaphorically) represented’ and gat kallask ‘was called’.
References
- Bibliography
- Louis-Jensen, Jonna. 1981. ‘Vǫndr er Máría mynduð’. In Dronke et al. 1981, 328-36.
- 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.
- Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.