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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Rloð Lv 8VIII (Ragn 24)

[5] skal ek ‘I … shall’: All previous eds apart from those of CPB and Rafn (FSN) omit the 1st pers. pron., taking the kenning in l. 7 as the subject of the sentence and skal as 3rd rather than 1st pers. sg. There is no reason why it should be omitted, however, either syntactically or metrically: the kenning in l. 7, to be discussed below, may be taken as an appositive semantic expansion of the 1st pers. pron. (‘I, the …’), and skal ek could be normalised to skalk.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. FSN = Rafn, Carl Christian, ed. 1829-30. Fornaldar sögur nordrlanda. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Popp.
  3. 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.

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