Note to Anon Krm 8VIII
[7] at gæta eins ‘to keep track of individuals’: This understanding of the phrase was recognised by Pfeiffer (1860, 225, 239), with his glossing of gæta as sorgen, achten ‘look out for’ and eins as im einzelnen, genau ‘individually, in detail’; similarly Wisén (1886-9, II, 107), and Finnur Jónsson (1893b, 165; Skj B). Rafn (1826, 9, 111), on the other hand, had understood it as sig at vogte, at vogte paa een ‘watch out for oneself’, an understanding perhaps influenced by the use in Modern Scandinavian of en ‘one’ to refer in certain contexts to an indefinite person regarded as typical of every person (cf. Wellander 1965, 261-2).
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