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Note to Mágj Lv 2VIII (Mág 2)

[3] þeir eru rógberar ‘they are slander-bearers’: The reading of 152. Ms. 590aˣ has þeir er rógbera, which Finnur Jónsson (Skj B) and Skald adopt and understand as þeir er bera róg ‘they who carry slander [between men]’. The cpd rógberi is attested in Old Norse prose; cf. rógbera Ásanna ‘the slander-carrier of the gods’, of Loki (SnE 2005, 26).

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. SnE 2005 = Snorri Sturluson. 2005. Edda: Prologue and Gylfaginning. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2nd edn. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.

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