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Note to Innsteinn Innkv 2VIII (Hálf 16)

[6] ef vér réðim því ‘if it were up to us [me]’: Lit. ‘if we decided about that’. With earlier eds, the ms.’s réðum has been normalised to réðim (pret. subj.), which would have been normal in a text of the C13th in a concessive clause (cf. ANG §536.2), but in a C15th ms. reflects the later Icelandic use of the indic. ending in such circumstances. Similar are Hálf 60/4, 6.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. ANG = Noreen, Adolf. 1923. Altnordische Grammatik I: Altisländische und altnorwegische Grammatik (Laut- und Flexionslehre) unter Berücksichtigung des Urnordischen. 4th edn. Halle: Niemeyer. 1st edn. 1884. 5th unrev. edn. 1970. Tübingen: Niemeyer.
  3. Internal references
  4. Hubert Seelow (ed.) 2017, ‘Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka 60 (Hrókr inn svarti, Hrókskviða 10)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 352.

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