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Note to FriðÞ Lv 5VIII (Frið 5)

[1] Alda ‘Alden’: Aldi (ModNorw. Alden) is the name of an island in Sunnfjord, Sogn og Fjordane, west of Atløy; cf. Þul Eyja 2/8III and Note. This interpretation of all mss’ ‘allda’ follows Skj B and Skald; previous eds (Falk 1890; Frið 1901) have understood the word as gen. pl. of ǫld, pl. aldir ‘men, people’, giving a sense ‘One could not see people because of a sorcery-induced storm’. However, this interpretation is at odds with the sense of the second helmingr of this stanza.

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.
  4. Frið 1901 = Larsson, Ludvig, ed. 1901. Friðþjófs saga ins frœkna. ASB 9. Halle: Niemeyer.
  5. Falk, Hjalmar. 1890. ‘Om Friðþjófs saga’. ANF 6, 60-102.
  6. Internal references
  7. Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Eyja heiti 2’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 975.

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