Note to Rloð Lv 7VIII (Ragn 23)
[5] baugum ‘with rings’: CPB and Rafn (FSN) retain (m. acc. pl. or gen. pl.) bauga, giving little sense in the context; Valdimar Ásmundarson (Ragn 1891), Finnur Jónsson (Skj B) and Guðni Jónsson (FSGJ) emend to baugi (dat. sg.) ‘ring’; all other eds, including the present, emend to dat. pl. baugum ‘rings’; and all eds (other than those of CPB and FSN) take baugi/baugum as qualified by the adj. brandrauðum ‘fire-red’ in l. 6, which formally could be either m. dat. sg. or dat. pl. Kock (NN §3181) defends the pl. reading here on the grounds, first, that <u> is more likely than <i> to have given rise to the <a> found in 1824b’s reading bauga; second, that the conventional attribution in poetry of the adj. rauðr ‘red’ to the noun hringr ‘ring’ occurs more often in the pl. than in the sg.; and third, that the pl. reading is consistent with the hermenn pl. ‘soldiers’ and the fjölð hringa ‘multitude of rings’ mentioned in ll. 2 and 4 respectively.
References
- Bibliography
- Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
- FSN = Rafn, Carl Christian, ed. 1829-30. Fornaldar sögur nordrlanda. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Popp.
- NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- 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.
- FSGJ = Guðni Jónsson, ed. 1954. Fornaldar sögur norðurlanda. 4 vols. [Reykjavík]: Íslendingasagnaútgáfan.
- Ragn 1891 = 2nd edn (pp. 175-224) of Ragn as ed. in Valdimar Ásmundarson 1885-9, I.