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Note to Rloð Lv 7VIII (Ragn 23)

[2]: The present edn follows 1824b in reading ef röskr vili (pres. subj.) ‘if a brave man should want’, i.e. ‘if he, (himself) brave, should want …’ (so also Olsen (Ragn 1906-8), Eskeland (Ragn 1944), Örnólfur Thorsson (Ragn 1985) and Ebel (Ragn 2003)). Though not so common in prose, the use of the pres. subj. in ef-clauses is amply attested in poetry, see CVC: ef B. Rafn (FSN) normalises 1824b’s ‘rauskr’ to röskr and retains the 1824b reading vili, Valdimar Ásmundarson (Ragn 1891; also CPB) emends to ef röskva vill (pres. indic.) ‘if he wants brave (soldiers)’, with röskva ‘brave’ as a m. acc. pl. adj. agreeing with and qualifying hermenn ‘soldiers’, and is followed in this respect by Finnur Jónsson (Skj B), Kock (Skald) and Guðni Jónsson (FSGJ).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
  3. FSN = Rafn, Carl Christian, ed. 1829-30. Fornaldar sögur nordrlanda. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Popp.
  4. Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  5. CVC = Cleasby, Richard, Gudbrand Vigfusson [Guðbrandur Vigfússon] and W. A. Craigie. 1957. An Icelandic-English Dictionary. 2nd edn. Oxford: Clarendon.
  6. 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.
  7. FSGJ = Guðni Jónsson, ed. 1954. Fornaldar sögur norðurlanda. 4 vols. [Reykjavík]: Íslendingasagnaútgáfan.
  8. Ragn 1906-8 = Olsen 1906-8, 111-222.
  9. Ragn 1944 = Eskeland, Severin, ed. and trans. 1944. Soga om Ragnar Lodbrok med Kråka-kvædet. Norrøne bokverk 16. 2nd ed. Oslo: Det Norske Samlaget. [1st ed. 1914].
  10. Ragn 1985 = Örnólfur Thorsson 1985, 101-53.
  11. Ragn 1891 = 2nd edn (pp. 175-224) of Ragn as ed. in Valdimar Ásmundarson 1885-9, I.
  12. Ragn 2003 = Ebel, Uwe, ed. 2003. Ragnars saga loðbrókar. Texte des skandinavischen Mittelalters 4. Vol. II of Ebel 1997-2003.

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