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Note to GizGrý Lv 2VIII (Heiðr 109)

[3] skjall*anda ‘chinking’: Neither ms. gives an acceptable reading and all eds but FSN emend. The significance seems to be that the coin is weighty enough to make a ringing noise when cast against another surface: Heiðr 1873 (366) and, following it, Heiðr 1960 (55 n. 2) refer to an incident related by Saxo (Saxo 2015, I, viii. 16. 7, pp. 626-7) in which only coins which made enough noise to be heard by a tax-collector twelve rooms away would be counted towards the tribute paid by the Frisians. 

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. FSN = Rafn, Carl Christian, ed. 1829-30. Fornaldar sögur nordrlanda. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Popp.
  3. Heiðr 1960 = Tolkien, Christopher, ed. and trans. 1960. Saga Heiðreks konungs ins vitra / The Saga of King Heidrek the Wise. Nelson Icelandic Texts. London etc.: Nelson.
  4. Heiðr 1873 = Bugge, Sophus, ed. 1873. Hervarar saga ok Heidreks. Det Norske oldskriftselskabs samlinger 17. Christiania (Oslo): Brøgger.
  5. Saxo 2015 = Friis-Jensen, Karsten, ed. 2015. Saxo Grammaticus: Gesta Danorum: The History of the Danes. Trans. Peter Fisher. Oxford Medieval Texts. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon.

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