Note to Anon Krm 25VIII
[10] hallar ‘the hall’: Both 6ˣ and AM 761b 4°ˣ (761bˣ) fol. 556v know the alternative reading ‘borda’, i.e. borða, gen. pl. of borð ‘table’, as a variant of hallar. This would give the meaning ‘to Viðrir’s tables’ and would thus constitute another reference to Valhǫll, cf. Note to l. 3 above. AM 761b 4°ˣ, written, according to Kålund (1888-94, II, 181-2), either by or for Árni Magnússon, contains a transcript of Krm in Árni’s hand (Kålund 1888-94, II, 763). Rafn used a copy of this transcript in his 1826 edn of Krm (see Rafn 1826, 86-7) and the transcript itself in his 1829 edn, where he designated it as M (see FSN I, xvii-xix, 300-10); in both eds he recorded the reading borða as a variant (Rafn 1826, 144; FSN I, 309). The reading borða would impart aðalhending with orð ‘words’, appropriately enough, to this even-numbered line.
References
- Bibliography
- FSN = Rafn, Carl Christian, ed. 1829-30. Fornaldar sögur nordrlanda. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Popp.
- Kålund, Kristian. 1888-94. Katalog over den Arnamagnæanske håndskriftsamling. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Gyldendal.
- Rafn, Carl Christian, ed. 1826. Krakas Maal eller Kvad om Kong Ragnar Lodbroks Krigsbedrifter og Heltedød efter en gammel Skindbog og flere hidtil ubenyttede Haandskrifter med dansk, latinsk og fransk oversættelse, forskjellige Læsemaader, samt kritiske og philologiske Anmærkninger. Copenhagen: Jens Hostrup Schultz; London: John and Arthur Arch.
- 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)