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Note to Skúli Svǫlðr 5III

[2] þars vér felldumsk ‘where we felled one another’: Skj B (followed by Skald) instead adopts the U variant felldum ‘[we] felled’ and emends vér ‘we’ to val, acc. of valr m. ‘the slain’: þars feldum val ‘there where [we] felled the slain’, but pressing reasons to do so are lacking. Ms. U’s text could be construed as þars felldum hlyn morðelds ‘where [we] felled the maple of murder-fire [SWORD > WARRIOR]’, but the other ms. witnesses show that these grammatically straightforward readings are secondary.

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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