[8] næsta ‘[so] much’: According to Kock, næst used after a negation (here aldri ‘never’) means ‘in the least’ (NN §2831C), but there is little evidence to support him. Cf. LP: næri, næstr; with verbs, the meaning is ‘very, much’ and (JH) i høj grad ‘to a great extent’. The MIcel. eds of Guðbrandur Jónsson (1951, 167) and Gunnar Finnbogason (1988, 54) gloss sem ég hræddist mjög ‘whom I feared greatly’.
References
- Bibliography
- NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- 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.
- Guðbrandur Jónsson, ed. 1951. Lilja: Krists konungs drápa tíræð eftir Eystein Ásgrímsson. Reykjavík: Helgafell.
- Gunnar Finnbogason, ed. 1988. Lilja. Reykjavík: Stafafell. 2nd rev. edn. Rekjavík: Hörpuútgáfa. Originally published 1974.