[2, 3] varð at rauðum ‘turned to red’: The variant varð rather than var ‘was’ is needed to produce the construction verða at plus dat. adj. in the sense ‘turn to, become’; cf. Arn Þorfdr 24/1II Bjǫrt verðr sól at svartri ‘The bright sun will turn to black’.
References
- Internal references
- Diana Whaley (ed.) 2009, ‘Arnórr jarlaskáld Þórðarson, Þorfinnsdrápa 24’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 258-9.