Note to GunnLeif Merl II 57^VIII

[4] ǫlðri ‘ale-drinking’: Emended from ms. ǫlð (refreshed) (Poole 2009a, 312). The Hb text features regular use of superscript contraction for <ri>, e.g. in eit<ri> (fol. 51r l. 16), which could easily be obscured by refreshing. For the sentiment, compare ofdrykkja ‘excessive drinking’ (II 56/7); also II 52/3-4. The ms. reading is retained in Bret 1848-9, Skj B and Skald, evidently in the sense of ‘people’; in Skj B ll. 3-4 are translated loosely as og gör intet mod sig selv (sine lyster) ‘and does nothing against itself (its pleasures)’ (Bret 1848-9 similarly). Merl 2012 also retains the ms. reading, but with translation of ǫlð as Schicksal ‘fate’, which is hard to account for unless by confusion with ørlǫg ‘fate’.

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