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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to AngH Lv 5VIII (Heiðr 98)

[5] svát ‘so that’: The ms. form, svá ‘so’, reflects a later (C14th and after) practice in which ‘at’ (here cliticised for metrical reasons) is omitted (see SkP VII, lxvii (§9.B.3); NS §265 Anm. 2b).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. NS = Nygaard, Marius. 1906. Norrøn syntax. Kristiania (Oslo): Aschehoug. Rpt. 1966.
  3. SkP VII = Poetry on Christian Subjects. Ed. Margaret Clunies Ross. 2007.

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