Note to HvítRagn Lv 1VIII (Ragn 21)
[7-8] fáim búnar snekkjur ‘we can get the ships prepared’: The Hb reading fáim is preferred here to 1824b’s megu(m), which, however, Rafn (FSN) and Örnólfur Thorsson (Ragn 1985), are exceptional among previous eds in retaining. The verb mega ‘may, can, know how to’ is used more readily with the inf. than with a p. p. (such as búnar ‘prepared’), and these two eds are no doubt assuming an understood inf. fá here (i.e. megum fá snekkjur búnar ‘may be able to get ships prepared’), since fá ‘get’ is used readily enough with the p. p. in the sense of ‘get something done’, see Heggstad et al. 2008: fá 6. It should be noted that Finnur Jónsson's normalised text in Hb 1892-6, 461 has the 3rd pers. sg. pres. subj. form fái ‘may/can get’ here, supplying by emendation a sg. verb form to follow the sg. subject indicated by the Hb reading hverr ... várr ‘which ... of us’; see the previous Note.
References
- Bibliography
- FSN = Rafn, Carl Christian, ed. 1829-30. Fornaldar sögur nordrlanda. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Popp.
- Hb 1892-6 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1892-6. Hauksbók udgiven efter de Arnamagnæanske håndskrifter no. 371, 544 og 675, 4° samt forskellige papirshåndskrifter. Copenhagen: Det kongelige nordiske oldskrift-selskab.
- Ragn 1985 = Örnólfur Thorsson 1985, 101-53.