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Note to Anon (Ragn) 4VIII (Ragn 34)

[6] eyragrán ‘grey-eared’: Lit. ‘ear-grey’. The present ed. follows Kock (NN §1466) in adopting this emended form (ms. ‘eyra grat’), agreeing with ylgr f. nom. sg. ‘she-wolf’ in l. 5. For Finnur Jónsson’s solution, see Note to l. 5. Ms. ‘grat’ could be taken, as by Örnólfur Thorsson (Ragn 1985), as grátt, n. acc. sg. of the adj. grár ‘grey’, used adverbially in the sense of ‘grimly, cruelly’ (cf. LP: grár 2, and cf. ModIcel. grátt gaman ‘malicious delight’).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  3. LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
  4. Ragn 1985 = Örnólfur Thorsson 1985, 101-53.

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