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Note to Skúli Svǫlðr 4III

[4] baugum ‘with rings’: Dat. is taken here as indicating ‘accompanying circumstances’ (cf. Heusler 1967, 116), but the usage is unusual. An alternative would be to read sama ‘befit, suit’ (R, , W) for saman in l. 4 and construe bark haugþak herfylgins Hǫlga sama baugum ‘I carried the barrow-thatch of host-accompanying Hǫlgi <legendary king> [GOLD] to befit rings’, but it is difficult to find parallels for either the combination bera + inf. or sama with dat. rei; nor is it entirely clear what the phrase would mean. Other solutions proposed by previous eds are taking C’s bauga (gen. pl.) as part of the shield-kenning (Wood 1964, 183), giving the pleonastic Reifnis bauga ræfrviti ‘beacon of Reifnir’s rings’ roof’ [SHIELD > SWORD]; or taking baugum as ‘with shields’, i.e. ‘by means of fighting’ (NN §2264), although baugr is not used as a shield-heiti elsewhere in early poetry (LP: baugr 4).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  3. LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
  4. Heusler, Andreas. 1967. Altisländisches Elementarbuch. 7th, unrev. edn. Heidelberg: Winter.
  5. Wood, Cecil. 1964. ‘Skúli Þorsteinsson’. SS 36, 175-88.

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