Note to GunnLeif Merl I 60^VIII

[5] at líf þetta ‘after this life’: The use of at appears irregular. Gunnlaugr may have taken Geoffrey’s inde ‘for this’ in the sense ‘thenceforward’, as is assumed in Skj B, but attestations of at in the sense of ‘after’ are not precisely parallel, as they involve constructions of the type at jǫfur dauðan ‘after the lord’s death’, lit. ‘at/with the lord dead’, at gram fallinn ‘after the king’s fall’, lit. ‘at/with the king fallen’: see ONP: at II. B. Possibly Gunnlaugr’s usage mingles this sense of at with at with the dat. in the sense of ‘because of’: see ONP: at I D 12.

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