[1-4]: Judging from alliteration in the surrounding text, l. 4 is missing, but none of the mss indicates a lacuna here. Moreover, ll. 1-3 in the mss are unmetrical (l. 1 is hypermetrical, and ll. 2-3 are hypometrical). The LaufE mss (LaufE 1979, 263, 339), which only list (normalised) hjalmgǫll, hrauð, Finnsleif and blóðleika, are of no help, and the additional heiti in RE 1665(Ee) (‘Brandfara’, ‘Thund’) do not fit the alliterative pattern. Kock (Skald; NN §§2565C, 2991E) rearranged the heiti in ll. 1-3 as follows (see also Note to l. 1 below): Kund, brynja, jalmgǫll, | kǫld, hrauð ok náin | Finnsleif. Kock’s emended version still leaves a missing half-line (l. 4) and does not obviate the metrical problems in ll. 1-3.
References
- Bibliography
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- LaufE 1979 = Faulkes, Anthony, ed. 1979. Edda Magnúsar Ólafssonar (Laufás Edda). RSÁM 13. Vol. I of Two Versions of Snorra Edda from the 17th Century. Reykjavík: Stofnun Árna Magnússonar, 1977-9.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Laufás Edda’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=10928> (accessed 29 March 2024)