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Note to Anon Andr 4VII

[7] og gæddi giftu ‘and endowed him with grace’: Kock (NN §2886) correctly interprets gæddi as 3rd pers. pret. sg. of gœða, paralleling almáttigr guð valdi, but divided from its subject by an intercalary cl.: mítis ... kostum prýddr ‘gentle ... adorned with virtues’. Finnur Jónsson, Skj B, attempts to read gæddi as a participial adj., in apposition with prýddr: meginpostulinn kostum prýddr ... ok giptu gæddi ‘the chief Apostle adorned with virtues ... and endowed with grace’, but without proposing the emendation of gæddi to gæddr that such a reading would require.

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.

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