Note to KrákÁsl Lv 10VIII (Ragn 31)
[3-4]: Olsen (Ragn 1906-8, 215) and all subsequent eds add at ‘so that’ by emendation at the beginning of l. 3, understanding what follows as a subordinate clause of purpose, with eldr ‘fire’ also added by these eds (except for Kock, Skald, who adds the more poetic hyrr ‘fire’) as its subject. Olsen (Ragn 1906-8, 215), Eskeland (Ragn 1944), and Ebel (Ragn 2003) emend inf. syngja ‘sing, crackle’ to n. p. p. (supine) sungit, but this is unnecessary; fá in the sense of ‘manage to, have a chance to’ (here in the 3rd pers. sg. pret. subj., fingi, in l. 4), may be used with the inf. as well as the p. p. (cf. Heggstad et al. 2008: fá). As for yfir feigum bör fólka ‘over the doomed tree of battles [WARRIOR]’, the emendations are supplied by Olsen (Ragn 1906-8, 215-16, citing Bugge and Finnur Jónsson in the case of dat. sg. feigum bör governed by prep. yfir ‘over’, and Finnur alone in the case of gen. pl. fólka), and by all subsequent eds.
References
- Bibliography
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- Ragn 1906-8 = Olsen 1906-8, 111-222.
- 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].
- Ragn 2003 = Ebel, Uwe, ed. 2003. Ragnars saga loðbrókar. Texte des skandinavischen Mittelalters 4. Vol. II of Ebel 1997-2003.