Note to Anon Krm 26VIII
[4] hildi ‘a battle’: Rafn (1826), Pfeiffer (1860), Valdimar Ásmundarson (Krm 1891) and Wisén (1886-9) treat hildi as a pers. n. for the valkyrie Hildr (cf. first Note to st. 4/2, and first Note to st. 10/2 above). The common-noun interpretation of ‘battle’ is preferred here, however, because it is outside any context of reference to the legend of Hildr and the Hjaðningar. The phrase vekja hildi ‘start a battle’ also occurs in Akv 14/16 and (with the verb in finite form) in HHund II 7/1-2
References
- Bibliography
- Wisén, Theodor, ed. 1886-9. Carmina Norrœnæ: Ex reliquiis vetustioris norrœnæ poësis selecta, recognita, commentariis et glossario instructa. 2 vols. Lund: Ohlsson.
- Pfeiffer, Friedrich. 1860. Altnordisches Lesebuch. Leipzig: T. O. Weigel.
- Krm 1891 = 2nd edn (pp. 225-8) of Krm as ed. in Valdimar Ásmundarson 1885-9, I.
- 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.
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