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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Innsteinn Innkv 3VIII (Hálf 18)

[8] viðsjár ‘wariness’: The f. noun viðsjá ‘wariness, cautiousness’ is nowhere else used with the verb ‘get, acquire’ and may be either gen. sg. or acc. pl.. Finnur Jónsson (LP: viðrsjǫ́, viðsjǫ́) describes the meaning of the word as ævnen, handlingen at tage sig i agt for ‘the capability, the act of being wary of’, giving it a slightly more concrete nuance, which makes its use with the verb seem more plausible.

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.

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