Note to Anon (TGT) 17III
[3-4] sem mest tígnarvald ‘as well as the greatest strength of honour’: This interpretation is from Björn Magnússon Ólsen (TGT 1884) and is adopted in Skj B. Kock (NN §2547) argues that sem is used in parallel with the two instances of ok and should not be taken with mest. He prefers W’s tígnir and reads sem tígnir, | mest vald ‘and honours, the greatest strength …’. It is rare, however, for tígn to be used in the pl., and the citations in ONP only have the pl. form from the C14th onwards. The cpd tígnarvald (and the related tígnarveldi) are uncommon in prose and poetry. Both have only two citations in ONP. Tígnarveldi occurs in Anon Líkn 24/7VII and tígnarvald is used only here in poetry.
References
- Bibliography
- TGT 1884 = Björn Magnússon Ólsen, ed. 1884. Den tredje og fjærde grammatiske afhandling i Snorres Edda tilligemed de grammatiske afhandlingers prolog og to andre tillæg. SUGNL 12. Copenhagen: Knudtzon.
- Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
- NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- ONP = Degnbol, Helle et al., eds. 1989-. A Dictionary of Old Norse Prose / Ordbog over det norrøne prosasprog. 1-. Copenhagen: The Arnamagnæan Commission.
- Internal references
- George S. Tate (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Líknarbraut 24’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 254-5.