Note to Anon Vitn 19^VII

[2] þar er beiðig ‘because I beg’: The ms. variants það er beiðig (so 721) and það eg beiði (so 713) are ungrammatical: the verb beiða ‘beg, ask, implore’ takes gen. of the thing, and það ‘that’ is n. acc. sg. Earlier eds accordingly emend það (n. acc. sg.) ‘that’ to þess (n. gen. sg.) ‘that’ (‘I ask that’). Clearly, the error must have originated in the misinterpretation of an abbreviation in the earlier ms. transmission. It is easy to see how the abbreviation for þar can be confused with the abbreviation for það, and also how er (so 721) can be confused with ‘ec’ (so 713). Beiðig ‘I ask’ (lit. ‘ask-I’; so 721) with the cliticised pron. is also more archaic than eg beiði (so 713).

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