Note to Ggnæv Frag 1III
[3] innanborðs ‘on board ship’: Interpretations of innan have varied, depending on whether scholars have (a) understood innan (l. 3) as an adv. ‘away from home’ or ‘abroad’ (lit. ‘from inside’) in association with drap sér ‘launched himself’ (l. 1), as have Skj B and SnE 1998, I, 222, II, 329 or (b) taken innan together with borðs, as has been done in this edn. Kock (NN §422) construed innan borðs as an adverbial phrase, meaning ‘on the ship’ and linked it with á aflgerð orða tungu naglfara ok meðalkafla ‘into the powerful activity of the words of the blade of the sword and the hilt’ (see Notes above and below for a discussion of these lines). Marold (1994c, 574-5), in a discussion of the cpd naglfari, which she understands to mean ‘ship’, takes innanborðs naglfara to mean ‘on board ship’.
References
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- Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
- NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Marold, Edith. 1994c. ‘“Nagellose Masten”. Die Sage von Hamðir und Sörli in der Ragnarsdrápa’. In Gísli Sigurðsson et al. 1994, II, 565-79.