Note to Anon (Vǫls) 3^VIII (Vǫls 23)

[6] lofgjörnum ‘the one eager for praise’: The cpd adj. lofgjarn is a hap. leg. in Old Norse but, interestingly in this heroic context, the Old English cognate occurs in sup. form lofgeornost ‘most eager for praise’ (l. 3182b) in a famous passage at the end of the poem Beowulf, in which the poet concludes his epic by summing up the hero Beowulf’s character (ll. 3180-2). Some scholars (cf. Beowulf 2008, 271-2) have claimed that this term is pejorative or at least equivocal in a Christian context; however, the present usage supports the contrary view, that the adj. is a term of praise.

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