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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to BjRagn Lv 1VIII (Ragn 7)

[1] hrundu vér ‘we raised’: The verb here is hrinda, meaning essentially ‘push (away), cast off’, here used with a dat. object in 1st pers. pl. pret. in the meaning ‘raise, utter’ (in a verb-adv. collocation with upp lit. ‘up’)’. It is not to be confused with the intransitive verb hrynja ‘tumble down’, which developed in the course of the C13th pret. tense forms identical to those of hrinda (e.g. 1st pers. pl. hrundum, from earlier hrunðum, cf. Holthausen 1896, §75, 2, 3, §252, 1; ANG §238.1b).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. ANG = Noreen, Adolf. 1923. Altnordische Grammatik I: Altisländische und altnorwegische Grammatik (Laut- und Flexionslehre) unter Berücksichtigung des Urnordischen. 4th edn. Halle: Niemeyer. 1st edn. 1884. 5th unrev. edn. 1970. Tübingen: Niemeyer.
  3. Holthausen, Ferdinand. 1896. Altisländisches Lesebuch. Weimar: Emil Felber.

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