[3] …: Unlike Anon (FoGT) 1/2, where the scribe has left a gap for a word that was never filled in, there is no sign in W that anything is missing between geirþings ‘of the spear-assembly’ and Gunnr (l. 4), but, as it stands, l. 3 is hypometrical and eds generally assume a missing word, which must begin with <g> for purposes of alliteration. Árni Magnússon wrote ‘[góðir]’ ‘good’ after geirþings in 761aˣ(94r), and Finnur Jónsson, Kock and Longo use the same adj., qualifying meiðar, in Skj B, Skald and FoGT 2004. SnE 1848-87, II, 194, following Rask (1818a, 336) has glaðir ‘cheerful’, but, as Björn Magnússon Ólsen (FoGT 1884, 242) points out, the second-to-last syllable of the line must be long. The latter conjectured glóða ‘of embers’, providing the kenning meiðar glóða geirþings ‘the trees of the embers of the spear-assembly [BATTLE > SWORDS > WARRIORS]’.
References
- Bibliography
- Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
- 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.
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- Rask, Rasmus Kristian, ed. 1818a. Snorra Edda ásamt Skáldu og þarmeð fylgjandi ritgjörðum. Stockholm: Hin Elménska prentsmiðja.
- 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.
- FoGT 2004 = Longo, Michele, ed. [2004]. ‘Il Quarto Trattato Grammaticale Islandese: Testo, Traduzione e Commento’. Dottorato di Ricerca in ‘Linguistica Sincronica e Diacronica’ (XV Ciclo). Palermo: Università degli Studi di Palermo, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia.
- Internal references
- Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from the Fourth Grammatical Treatise 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 573.