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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Hskv Hardr 3II

[2] of ‘about’: So the majority of the mss. The variant reading við ‘to’ (so , Hr) changes the meaning of the sentence somewhat: sás helt illa orðum við stilli ‘who kept poor control of his words to the ruler’, i.e. he failed to keep his promises (ll. 1-2). The ms. witnesses show that this variant is secondary.

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