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Note to Anon Pét 39VII

[7-8] áðr en gæðir andlags batt umgerðar sverði ‘before the strengthener of the counterthrust fastened the bindings on the sword’: Finnur Jónsson (Skj B) emends ms. ‘andlags’ to andlangs, takes sverði ‘with the sword’ with ll. 5-6, rather than ll. 7-8, and translates för end himlens styrer forbandt såret ‘before the ruler of heaven bandaged the wound’, admitting parenthetically: denne sætning er usikker ‘this clause is doubtful’ (cf. LP: andlangr). As Kock notes (NN §1740), Christ’s miraculous healing of Malchus’s ear does not involve bandages (cf. Pétr 13/31-2; Luke XXII.51), and gæðir andlags can without difficulty be taken as a warrior kennning (cf. LP: gæðir 2; Meissner, 287-8, 294-5). On umgerðar see Falk 1914, 33-5 (cf. Falk 1914, 28; Fritzner: friðbönd). Cf. John XVIII.11: dixit ergo Iesus Petro mitte gladium in vaginam ‘Jesus therefore said to Peter: put up thy sword into the scabbard’; Pétr 13/25: Petre, sliðra þu sverð þitt ‘Peter, sheathe your sword’; also Pétr2 161/29-30 and PP 285/35: i umgerð ‘into the scabbard’.

References

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  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. Meissner = Meissner, Rudolf. 1921. Die Kenningar der Skalden: Ein Beitrag zur skaldischen Poetik. Rheinische Beiträge und Hülfsbücher zur germanischen Philologie und Volkskunde 1. Bonn and Leipzig: Schroeder. Rpt. 1984. Hildesheim etc.: Olms.
  5. 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.
  6. Falk, Hjalmar, ed. 1914a. Sólarljóð. Videnskapsselskapets skrifter II. Hist.-filos. kl. 7. 2 vols. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.
  7. Fritzner = Fritzner, Johan. 1883-96. Ordbog over det gamle norske sprog. 3 vols. Kristiania (Oslo): Den norske forlagsforening. 4th edn. Rpt. 1973. Oslo etc.: Universitetsforlaget.

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