[4] gœli ‘could enchant’: The verb is pret. subj. of gala ‘chant, enchant’, after áðr ‘until’ (l. 1). According to SnE (see Note to [All] above), Gróa was distracted from her spells and did not finish the job of removing the whetstone from Þórr’s head.
References
- Internal references
- Edith Marold 2017, ‘Snorra Edda (Prologue, Gylfaginning, Skáldskaparmál)’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols [check printed volume for citation].