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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Þloft Tøgdr 7I

[4] forvíst ‘most certainly’: (a) Skj B and LP: forvist take this as the noun forvist f. ‘care, custodianship’ (not recorded elsewhere in skaldic poetry), seemingly in apposition to gjǫld (and governing fimm tøgu/tega, hence ‘custodianship of fifty marks’), as the object of borit ‘brought’. (b) Kock, however (NN §786, followed by ÍF 35), offers the preferable interpretation that what we have is the common adv. víst ‘certainly’, preceded by the intensifying prefix for-.

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. LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
  5. ÍF 35 = Danakonunga sǫgur. Ed. Bjarni Guðnason. 1982.

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