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Note to Þul Ásynja 2III

[8] talið næst þeim ‘[are] listed next to them’: The A variant of this line er þeim næst talið lit. ‘is listed next to them’ (so also, approximately, B) is unmetrical and appears to represent an attempt at syntactic simplification. In R, , C, the verb er ‘is’ (earlier es) is suppressed (talið ‘listed’ is f. nom. sg. of the p. p. taliðr from telja ‘list, enumerate’). For finite verbs in the sg. with pl. subjects (here Þrúðr and Rán), see NS §70. Skj B (followed by Skald) emends to þeim es næst talið (Skald: þeim’s næst talið), which is unnecessary. SnE 1998 also adopts the R, , C reading here.

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. Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  4. NS = Nygaard, Marius. 1906. Norrøn syntax. Kristiania (Oslo): Aschehoug. Rpt. 1966.
  5. SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.

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