[7-8]: Fengum, 1st pers. pl. pret. of fá in the sense of ‘provide, supply’, here takes m. dat. sg. gera ‘the greedy one <wolf>’ as its indirect object, and gisting ‘sustenance’ in the acc. as its direct object; whereas two similar constructions in Krm have the direct object in the gen. (st. 2/8 mikils verðar ‘a massive meal’ and st. 26/9 móðernis ‘mother, maternal origin, motherhood’ (see also LP: 2. fáa 2).
References
- Bibliography
- LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
- Internal references
- Rory McTurk 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Krákumál’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 706. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1020> (accessed 7 May 2024)