[2] brynja ‘the byrnie’: So R, W, 2368ˣ, RE 1665. Taken here as the subject of kvaddi lit. ‘greeted’. The Tˣ, U, A, C variant brynju (oblique, sg.) has stronger support among the SnE mss and could be the object of kvaddi, which would require that hlynr svella handar be construed as the subject of that verb rather than as a form of address (‘thus the maple of ice-sheets of the hand [SILVER > MAN] greeted the byrnie’; so Skj B and Skald). However, as Kock (NN §3132) points out, that entails emendation of the m. heill (lit. ‘healthy, hale’) to f. heil because brynju is f. acc. sg. The present edn follows SnE 1848-87 and SnE 1998.
References
- Bibliography
- Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
- SnE 1848-87 = Snorri Sturluson. 1848-87. Edda Snorra Sturlusonar: Edda Snorronis Sturlaei. Ed. Jón Sigurðsson et al. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Legatum Arnamagnaeanum. Rpt. Osnabrück: Zeller, 1966.
- 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.
- SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Internal references
- Edith Marold 2017, ‘Snorra Edda (Prologue, Gylfaginning, Skáldskaparmál)’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols [check printed volume for citation].