Note to Sigoa Lv 1VIII (Ragn 19)
[7] ef eggjar duga oss ‘if sword-blades serve us well’: The reading of Hb and 147, which is to be preferred over that of 1824b, ef svá duga dísir ‘if the dísir will lend support thus’, because it provides vocalic alliteration with the first syllable of Eysteinn, the head-stave in l. 8. There is no alliteration linking ll. 7-8 of 1824b. Most other eds adopt the Hb reading, with the exception of FSN, CPB (both with 1824b’s text), Ragn 1891 and Ragn 1985, the last two of whom read ef svá duga eggjar ‘if sword-blades avail’.
References
- Bibliography
- FSN = Rafn, Carl Christian, ed. 1829-30. Fornaldar sögur nordrlanda. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Popp.
- 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.
- Ragn 1891 = 2nd edn (pp. 175-224) of Ragn as ed. in Valdimar Ásmundarson 1885-9, I.