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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to KormǪ Sigdr 1III

[1] á ‘to’: It is not possible to interpret á ‘to’ as an adv. (so Skj B; Finnur Jónsson 1931, 108-9), because this is a Type A-line, and á must be an unstressed, proclitic prep. modifying Sýrar in the cadence (no sentence boundary can fall between metrical positions 4 and 5 in this type of line). The latter word must therefore be part of the poetry-kenning (see Note to ll. 1, 2, 3, 4 above), though quite a bulky one.

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. Finnur Jónsson. 1931. ‘Kormákr Ögmundarson’. ÅNOH, 107-206.

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