Note to Anon Mgr 10VII
[4] blessuð, fróðan (f. nom. sg., m. acc. sg.) ‘blessed, learned’: As it stands in 713 (móðir talar svá við blessuð fróðan lit. ‘the mother speaks thus to the blessed wise’), the l. makes no sense syntactically, because blessuð ‘blessed’ is f. nom. sg. and fróðan ‘learned’ is m. acc. sg. The present emendation follows Skj B and Skald (see also the comparable structures in 18/6 and 22/1 below). Wrightson retains the ms. reading and separates the prep. við ‘to’ from its object fróðan ‘learned’: svá talar blessuð móðir miskunnar við fróðan ‘so the blessed Mother of Mercy speaks to the learned one’. Such a w.o. is unprecedented in skaldic poetry (a proclitic prep. cannot be separated from the object).