[4] ok eigi lengi ‘and keep [her] for a long time’: If this verb is taken as an adv. rather than as a verb (see Context above), the clause ok eigi lengi translates as ‘and not for a long time’. Cf. the almost similar ambiguity in Anon (TGT) 15.
References
- Internal references
- Tarrin Wills (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from the Third Grammatical Treatise 15’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 547.