[2] um kúga oss ‘tyrannise over us’: Ms. 510’s reading oss of kúga, which contains the archaic pleonastic particle of, has been normalised to a standard appropriate to the period after 1250. Similar examples occur elsewhere in the fornaldarsaga corpus, suggesting that some of the extant mss are based on older exemplars; cf. Ásm 1/3, 5 and Ǫrv 138/8 and Notes there.
References
- Internal references
- Peter Jorgensen (ed.) 2017, ‘Ásmundar saga kappabana 1 (Hildibrandr, Lausavísur 1)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 16.
- Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 138 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Ævidrápa 68)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 944.