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Note to Ormr Frag 2III

[4] ljósa (f. acc. sg.) ‘clear’: Skj A reads ms. ljós, f. nom. sg. or n. nom./acc. pl. (cf. SnE 1848-87, II, 340) and emends to ljósa, followed by all subsequent eds. Considerations of sense and word order speak for construing the adj. with leyfð ‘[poem of] praise’ (f. acc. sg.; l. 3), as advocated by Kock (NN §900; cf. SnE 1998), rather than with orðgnótt ‘word-abundance’ (l. 1), as supposed in Skj B; Kock cites parallel uses of ljóss. In an earlier interpretation, explicitly rejected by Kock (NN §900), Rask (SnE 1818, 176), followed by SnE 1848-87, I, 468-9 n. 10, reads ms. ljós as ljósir (m. nom. pl.) and emends to ljósri (f. dat. sg.) putatively a substantivised adj. referring to a woman who is the subject of men’s praise. But this depends, as Kock notes, upon the separation of the prep. fyr from ljósri, as apparent in the translation in SnE 1848-87, I, 469, laudem virorum coram candida (muliere) recito ‘I recite the praise of men in the presence of the bright (woman)’. What Rask takes as the abbreviation for -ir is merely the final curve of letter <s>, with an interruption in the pen-stroke or loss of ink between it and the ascender.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Skj A = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15a. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. A: Tekst efter håndskrifterne. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1967. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
  3. Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
  4. SnE 1848-87 = Snorri Sturluson. 1848-87. Edda Snorra Sturlusonar: Edda Snorronis Sturlaei. Ed. Jón Sigurðsson et al. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Legatum Arnamagnaeanum. Rpt. Osnabrück: Zeller, 1966.
  5. NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  6. SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
  7. SnE 1818 = Rask, Rasmus Kristian, ed. 1818a. Snorra Edda ásamt Skáldu og þarmeð fylgjandi ritgjörðum. Stockholm: Elmen.

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