[3] fornyrðin ‘the archaisms’: The long third syllable breaks Sievers’ metrical rule, and Kock (NN §2629G) proposes emendation to fornyrði to yield the more conventional pattern | . But no ms. has this reading: the poet seems to regard ‘the archaisms’ as a distinct lexicon (as do modern skaldicists, witness LP), which he wished to avoid.
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.