[3-4]: The idiom bjóða heim means ‘to drive livestock home’ (ONP: bjóða 4). The use of bjóða with heimleiðar ‘homewards’ (l. 4, gen. of heimleið ‘home path’, used adverbially) again evokes the image of the two flocks. On the adverbial use of the gen., see Guðbrandur Jónsson 1951, 176, and NS §152. Skj B and Skald follow the alternative ms. reading heimleiddir, from heimleiddr, adj. ‘led home’, and construe því at heimleiddir beimar verða ungir ... ‘because, having been led home, men become young ...’. Bauð (l. 3) is then given its normal sense of ‘invited’.
References
- Bibliography
- Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- Guðbrandur Jónsson, ed. 1951. Lilja: Krists konungs drápa tíræð eftir Eystein Ásgrímsson. Reykjavík: Helgafell.
- NS = Nygaard, Marius. 1906. Norrøn syntax. Kristiania (Oslo): Aschehoug. Rpt. 1966.
- ONP = Degnbol, Helle et al., eds. 1989-. A Dictionary of Old Norse Prose / Ordbog over det norrøne prosasprog. 1-. Copenhagen: The Arnamagnæan Commission.