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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Anon (LaufE) 10III

[1] er ek mýgi* andri ‘as I press down the ski’: Both mss read andi, which can only be construed as m. nom. sg. ‘spirit, soul, breath’, which makes no sense syntactically. The verb mýgja ‘press down, oppress’ takes the dat. (andri ‘ski’ is m. dat. sg.). Mýgi is 1st pers. sg. pres. indic. (emended from the later 1st pers. sg. pres. indic. form mýgir; see ANG §531.1). Alternatively, mýgir could be a nomen agentis, ‘oppressor’. That would require a determinant and a tentative suggestion might be anda (m. gen. sg.): ek er mýgir anda ‘I am the oppressor of breath’ (?).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. ANG = Noreen, Adolf. 1923. Altnordische Grammatik I: Altisländische und altnorwegische Grammatik (Laut- und Flexionslehre) unter Berücksichtigung des Urnordischen. 4th edn. Halle: Niemeyer. 1st edn. 1884. 5th unrev. edn. 1970. Tübingen: Niemeyer.

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