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Note to Hǫrðr Lv 4VIII (HjǪ 43)

[6] vakta ‘look after’: All mss have vakta ‘look after, watch over’ here, but it does not alliterate and is a late adoption into Old Norse from Middle Low German (see AEW, ONP: vakta). The additional hand of papp6ˣ crosses out vakta and adds reiða ‘spread, toss’ above the line, and this reading has been adopted by most eds and may well have been the original one.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. AEW = Vries, Jan de. 1962. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2nd rev. edn. Rpt. 1977. Leiden: Brill.
  3. ONP = Degnbol, Helle et al., eds. 1989-. A Dictionary of Old Norse Prose / Ordbog over det norrøne prosasprog. 1-. Copenhagen: The Arnamagnæan Commission.

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