[5] svát ‘so that’: The ms. form, svá ‘so’, reflects a later (C14th and after) practice in which að ‘at’ (here cliticised for metrical reasons) is omitted (see SkP VII, lxvii (§9.B.3); NS §265 Anm. 2b).
References
- Bibliography
- NS = Nygaard, Marius. 1906. Norrøn syntax. Kristiania (Oslo): Aschehoug. Rpt. 1966.
- SkP VII = Poetry on Christian Subjects. Ed. Margaret Clunies Ross. 2007.