[4] lítt ‘not at all’: Lit. ‘little’. The ms. reads ‘lut’, which could be construed as hlut ‘lot, part, number’, a reading accepted in SnE 1848-87, II, 194-5. This, however, requires the sorgum of l. 2 to be understood as saurgum from saurigr ‘dirty, filthy’. Initial l- is also required by alliteration here (initial h- in the consonant cluster hl- was not lost in Icelandic; cf. ANG §289). See discussion in FoGT 1884, 243.
References
- Bibliography
- SnE 1848-87 = Snorri Sturluson. 1848-87. Edda Snorra Sturlusonar: Edda Snorronis Sturlaei. Ed. Jón Sigurðsson et al. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Legatum Arnamagnaeanum. Rpt. Osnabrück: Zeller, 1966.
- ANG = Noreen, Adolf. 1923. Altnordische Grammatik I: Altisländische und altnorwegische Grammatik (Laut- und Flexionslehre) unter Berücksichtigung des Urnordischen. 4th edn. Halle: Niemeyer. 1st edn. 1884. 5th unrev. edn. 1970. Tübingen: Niemeyer.
- FoGT 1884 = Björn Magnússon Ólsen, ed. 1884. Den tredje og fjærde grammatiske afhandling i Snorres Edda tilligemed de grammatiske afhandlingers prolog og to andre tillæg. SUGNL 12. Copenhagen: Knudtzon.