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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Sigv Frag 1III

[3] en ‘and’: The reading of W, is chosen here as having relatively strong ms. support and giving good sense. Alternatively, the R reading at could be selected and construed as the conj. ‘(so) that, ‘(such) that’. Though rare, it occurs with both indic. and subj. verbs (see LP: 2. at). Faulkes (SnE 1998, II, 365) suggests at tel engin smæstu n[æst] ‘such that I consider none of the smallest (battles) second (to it) (i.e. comparable to it)’, but engin smæstu is syntactically awkward.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
  3. SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.

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