Note to Sigv Berv 13^II

[3, 4] opt reynir þú þunn stôl ‘frequently you test slender swords’: The main variant readings opt rýðr þegnum þínum ‘often you redden slender swords for your followers’ (so 325XI 3, Flat), opt rýðr þegnum þýðum ‘often you redden slender swords for your cheerful followers’ (so H, Hr)’ are possible but less preferable from a metrical point of view. The Flat, 325XI 3 variant lacks internal rhyme and, in the H-Hr version, in which þýðum ‘cheerful’ clearly represents an attempt to restore internal rhyme, the first rhyme falls on an unstressed syllable (rýðr ‘redden’) (see also Louis-Jensen 1977, 152-5). The presence of the word þegn ‘follower’ in H, Hr, 325XI 3 and Flat could have been influenced by its occurrence in the two preceding sts and in the following st.

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