Note to Rloð Lv 6VIII (Ragn 10)
[8] hrings ‘a ring’: Base-word in kenning for ‘snake’. All eds apart from Vigfusson and Powell (CPB), Rafn (FSN), and Örnólfur Thorsson (Ragn 1985), emend here to acc., hring*, but this seems unnecessary: fá ‘obtain, acquire’ may take the gen. as well as the acc., the former usage perhaps implying the earning of something more or less deserved or (to judge from its frequent occurrence in the sense ‘take sby to wife’) acquisition in the long term; see CVC: fá IV.
References
- Bibliography
- FSN = Rafn, Carl Christian, ed. 1829-30. Fornaldar sögur nordrlanda. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Popp.
- CVC = Cleasby, Richard, Gudbrand Vigfusson [Guðbrandur Vigfússon] and W. A. Craigie. 1957. An Icelandic-English Dictionary. 2nd edn. Oxford: Clarendon.
- CPB = Gudbrand Vigfusson [Guðbrandur Vigfússon] and F. York Powell, eds. 1883. Corpus poeticum boreale: The Poetry of the Old Northern Tongue from the Earliest Times to the Thirteenth Century. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon. Rpt. 1965, New York: Russell & Russell.
- Ragn 1985 = Örnólfur Thorsson 1985, 101-53.