Note to Anon Krm 19VIII
[10] um skæru ‘during the battle’: This is interpreted as um skæro (normalised um skæru) ‘at dawn’ (CPB). In poetry up to 1250, if not later, the rhyme skæru : ærit (earlier œrit) would have been half rhyme (skothending) rather than the full rhyme (aðalhending) that would be expected in an even-numbered line. Full rhyme is provided by skæru ‘battle’ (earlier skœru), though it may be noted that l. 9, where skothending might be expected, shows no example of either skothending or aðalhending. Cf. the remarks in the Introduction on the use of hendingar in Krm.
References
- Bibliography
- 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.
- 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 19 April 2024)