Cookies on our website

We use cookies on this website, mainly to provide a secure browsing experience but also to collect statistics on how the website is used. You can find out more about the cookies we set, the information we store and how we use it on the cookies page.

Continue

skaldic

Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

Menu Search

Note to Ekúl Kristdr 1III

[3] sannr ‘true’: All mss read sǫnn and this reading was adopted by Finnur Jónsson in Skj B, construing sólkonungr es einn hreinni an ǫll ǫnnur sǫnn dýrð ‘the king of the sun is alone purer than all other true glory’. SnE 1998 also follows the ms. forms here. The problem with doing so, as Kock (NN §2546) noted, is that Finnur’s construal has the verb embedded in the comparative part of the clause, whereas the word before es ‘is’ must belong to its main part; hence the emendation to the m. sg. adj. sannr to agree with sólkonungr.

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. SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.

Close

Log in

This service is only available to members of the relevant projects, and to purchasers of the skaldic volumes published by Brepols.
This service uses cookies. By logging in you agree to the use of cookies on your browser.

Close