[3] af alfi ‘vigorously’: Finnur Jónsson (1900b, 400) preferred the reading of Tˣ ‘af afli’ but that fails to produce the hending in l. 3. Reichardt (1948, 390) therefore proposed keeping the reading af alfi (R, W). He suggested that alf was a secondary form of afl, caused by metathesis of ƀl, fl to lƀ, lf (cf. ANG §313.1), which the poet resorted to in order to form a correct hending. The present edn follows Reichardt here.
References
- Bibliography
- 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.
- Finnur Jónsson. 1900b. ‘Þórsdrápa Eilífs Goðrúnarsonar’. Oversigt over det Kgl. Danske videnskabernes selskabs forhandlinger 1900, 369-410.
- Reichardt, Konstantin. 1948. ‘Die Thórsdrápa des Eilífr Goðrúnarson: Textinterpretation’. PMLA 63, 329-91.