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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Anon Heildr 1VII

[5] endrbornar hér ‘of reborn (people) here’: Skj B, followed by Skald, emends to endrbornum, taking endrbornum her ‘the reborn army’, i.e. Christians, as the dat. indirect object with eykr yndi ‘he augments joy’. B’s endrbornar can be retained if it is assumed to be a syncopated form of the f. gen. sg. form of the adj. endrborinnar, agreeing with þjóðar (l. 2), and if B’s ‘her’ is construed as the adv. hér ‘here’. Theologically, a soul is reborn at Baptism and thus exists on earth (‘here’) in a reborn spiritual state until earthly death brings it to its heavenly apotheosis.

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. Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.

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