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Note to Hávh Lv 1III

[All]: (a) The present edn follows that of Faulkes (SnE 1998). (b) Finnur Jónsson (Skj B) emends jódraugum dat. pl. ‘steed-logs’ (l. 1) to jódraugar nom. pl. and takes jódraugar ægis ‘logs of the steed of the ocean [SHIP > SEAFARERS]’ as the subject of the second clause. (c) Kock (NN §2256) rightly objects to the syntactic break after metrical position 1 in l. 1. He adopts the U, B variant of (um) ‘above’ in l. 2 and af ‘from’ (so all other mss; l. 4) and construes the helmingr as follows: Nú ’s jódraugum ægis | arnar flaug of bauga. | Hygg, at heimboð þiggi | hangagoðs af vangi, translated as Över skölderna det flyger | örnar nu för fartygsfolket. | Jag förmenar, att Odin | de från fältet hembud få! ‘Above the shields eagles are now flying for the seafarers. I believe that Odin will invite them home from the battlefield!’. The problem with this interpretation is that the variant um ‘above’ (l. 2) is only attested in B and U, and the latter has um hauga ‘above the hills’, which is clearly a lectio facilior. All other mss have ok bauga ‘and rings’, which must be the second acc. object of þiggi ‘may receive’ (l. 3) in the second clause.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
  3. NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  4. SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.

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