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Note to Anon Krm 1VIII

[4] morði ‘the slaying’: Kock (NN §2817) takes morð ‘slaying, battle’ here as synonymous with víg ‘fight, (hostile) encounter’ in l. 8, making the point that the phrase at því vígi ‘in that fight’ refers back to the serpent-slaying of l. 4. He further takes grafvitnis as a descriptive (or a def.?) gen. (cf. NS §§127, 123) rather than simply (as in the translation above, cf. CPB II, 341) an objective gen. (cf. NS §125), understanding it as ‘the fight (to the death) with the serpent, the serpent-fight’, comparing it with OE wyrmes wīġ ‘the fight with the dragon, the dragon-fight’, in Beowulf ll. 2316 and 2348.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  3. CPB = Gudbrand Vigfusson [Guðbrandur Vigfússon] and F. York Powell, eds. 1883. Corpus poeticum boreale: The Poetry of the Old Northern Tongue from the Earliest Times to the Thirteenth Century. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon. Rpt. 1965, New York: Russell & Russell.
  4. NS = Nygaard, Marius. 1906. Norrøn syntax. Kristiania (Oslo): Aschehoug. Rpt. 1966.
  5. Internal references
  6. Not published: do not cite ()

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