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Note to FriðÞ Lv 24VIII (Frið 30)

[1-4]: Ms. 510’s text is impossible to construe without some emendation. Finnur Jónsson (Skj B) emends in the following places in ll. 1-4: beggja (l. 2) to brúðar ‘of the bride, woman’, svefnhúsi (‘suennhusi’ 510) (l. 3) to sumlhúsi ‘banqueting house’, seggja meiðum (l. 4) to seima meiða, together with brúðar (l. 2), forming a woman-kenning, ‘of the bride of trees of gold wires [MEN > WOMAN]’. The present edn takes up a suggestion of Wenz (Frið 1914, lxxviii) that meiðum (l. 4) may be a scribal error for some form of the noun meiðm ‘treasure, valuables’ (usually in pl.). The emendation to seggja (l. 4) is minor.

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. Frið 1914 = Wenz, Gustaf, ed. 1914. Die Friðþjófssaga in ihrer Überlieferung untersucht und der ältesten Fassung kritisch herausgegeben. Halle: Niemeyer.

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