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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Keth Lv 11VIII (Ket 16)

[4] er ek hefik önga eina: This anaphoric use of the rel. particle er at the beginning of the second half-line of a long-line is typical of ljóðaháttr (cf. NK II: er; Gering 1903: es I. A. 1; LP: es 9). Here it would refer to the first half-line At uppiverandi sólu and perhaps could be rendered in conjunction with the whole sentence At … litit as: ‘While the sun is up, then (er) I have seen not a single one more ugly’.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
  3. Gering, Hugo. 1903. Vollständiges Wörterbuch zu den Liedern der Edda. Halle: Waisenhaus. Rpt. 1971. Hildesheim: Olms.
  4. NK II = Neckel, Gustav and Hans Kuhn (1899), eds. 1968. Edda: Die Lieder des Codex Regius nebst verwandten Denkmälern. 2 vols. II: Kurzes Wörterbuch. Heidelberg: Winter.

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