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Note to Anon (Ragn) 4VIII (Ragn 34)

[5] aldri ‘never’: The ms. reading can be retained, as here and by Örnólfur Thorsson (Ragn 1985), provided that the mönnum ‘men’ are assumed to be of the speaker’s party: they have not been overcome. Kock (NN §1466) proposes emending aldri to öldur-, thus obtaining in l. 5 the cpd noun öldurmönnum ‘noblemen’. Finnur Jónsson (Skj B) more radically emends aldri to arnar and ‘eyragrat’ to eyddisk gráðr, hence ‘the greed of the eagle was destroyed (i.e. the eagle was sated)’.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
  3. NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  4. Ragn 1985 = Örnólfur Thorsson 1985, 101-53.

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