[3] ró (f.): So B (and the LaufE mss); the A variant ‘rø̨’ cannot be construed to make any sense in this context. As a heiti for ‘tree’ the word is not found elsewhere. It is possible that this heiti is not a term for a tree but rather denotes a pole (ró = rá f. ‘pole, sail-yard’).
References
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- (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 19 May 2024)