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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Hjþ Lv 2VIII (HjǪ 3)

[3] flanar ok flöktir ‘flits and flutters about’: No ms. has exactly these words in precisely this order. The mss’ ‘flamar’, which is not an Old Norse word, has been corrected to flanar ‘flits’ from flana, which is not recorded elsewhere in Old Icelandic but occurs in Modern Icelandic in the sense ‘rush, act rashly’ (ÍO: flana) while the uncommon flǫkta or flǫkða ‘flutter, fly about’ is used particularly of birds and flies (Fritzner: flökta). ModIcel. flökta means ‘wander, flutter, flicker’ (ÍO: flökta).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Fritzner = Fritzner, Johan. 1883-96. Ordbog over det gamle norske sprog. 3 vols. Kristiania (Oslo): Den norske forlagsforening. 4th edn. Rpt. 1973. Oslo etc.: Universitetsforlaget.
  3. ÍO = Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon. 1989. Íslensk orðsifjabók. Reykjavík: Orðabók Háskólans.

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