[7] þér er: NN §2329 (cf. Skald), objecting to er ‘who’ as overly elliptical for ‘[those] who’, suggests that the ‘-er’ abbreviation of þér ‘you’ be expanded to form þeir ‘they’. But there is no other instance of the abbreviation as ‘-eir’, and the ms. reading makes perfectly good sense.
References
- Bibliography
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.