[3] ið næsta ‘very nearly’: Kock (NN §2831B.[b]) takes as a temporal adv. ‘next, thereupon’, but an adv. of degree ‘very nearly, almost’ seems more likely. Cf. NN §2831C: om grad. a and b.
References
- Bibliography
- NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.