Note to GunnLeif Merl I 61^VIII

[10] ok numin tígnum ‘and deprived of honours’: Finnur Jónsson reads numinn, referring back to the lynx-like king – og han berøvet sin hæder ‘and he [will be] deprived of his honour’ (Skj B, cf. NN §3258C; Merl 2012) – but the sense and adherence to the Latin are improved if we interpret the ms. form numin as f. nom. sg., agreeing with Neustría, which is the subject of the clause. Kock doubts (NN §104, cf. §3258C) that the names of countries can function as grammatical subjects, but fails to take account of the Latin. Cities and nations, like individual persons, could be thought of as possessing honours (cf. I 30/5, I 59/5).

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