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Note to Eskál Hardr 1III

[1-2] landfrœkn jǫfurr Lundar ‘the land-valiant prince of Lund [DANISH KING]’: Lund is in Skåne, now in southern Sweden, though it was under Danish rule until 1658. The ms. readings are retained here, as by Finnur Jónsson (1891a, 181-2), despite his reservations about the construction. In Skj B Finnur follows Konráð Gíslason (1892, 100, but cf. Finnur Jónsson 1891a, 181-2, defending the ms. reading, though conceding that the construction is unusual) in emending land- to lands, so that the reference is to frœkn jǫfurr lands Lundar ‘the valiant prince of the land of Lund’. Kock (NN §2239) argues that landfrœkn ‘land-valiant’ is comparable to víðfrœkn ‘widely-valiant’ and þjóðsterkr ‘mightily-strong’, and the construction ‘the land of Lund’ is unusual.

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. Konráð Gíslason, ed. 1892a. Udvalg af oldnordiske skjaldekvad, med anmærkninger. Copenhagen: Gyldendal.
  5. Finnur Jónsson. 1891a. ‘Vellekla: Tekstkritiske bemærkninger’. ÅNOH, 147-82.

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