[2] hugsnöru ‘courage-swift’: In place of this adj. previous eds have without exception adopted the Hb reading hauksnöru ‘hawk-keen’ (attested in RvHbreiðm Hl 11/2III), no doubt with a view to obviating repetition of hug- from l. 1. It may be argued that the repetition is effective, however, partly in reinforcing the idea of courage, and partly in extending the scope for multiple interpretation, in allowing the meaning ‘mind, thought’ for hugr (SnE 2005, 43), as well as the meaning ‘courage’, to be present. The word occurs in later mss of ǪrvOdd Ævdr (Ǫrv 134/1-2), in the meaning ‘keen-minded’, see the second Note to [All] there.
References
- Bibliography
- SnE 2005 = Snorri Sturluson. 2005. Edda: Prologue and Gylfaginning. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2nd edn. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Internal references
- Kari Ellen Gade 2017, ‘ Rǫgnvaldr jarl and Hallr Þórarinsson, Háttalykill’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1001. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1347> (accessed 19 April 2024)
- Margaret Clunies Ross (forthcoming), ‘ Ǫrvar-Oddr, Ævidrápa’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=2999> (accessed 19 April 2024)
- Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 134 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Ævidrápa 64)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 940.