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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to TorfE Lv 5I

[8] standa ‘stand’: The sense is ‘be situated’ rather than ‘hold upright posture’. The reading lúta ‘bend, bow, yield’ arguably suits the position of a body beneath a carrion bird better than standa (NN §3041), but since all other mss have variants on standalúta appears to be a case of oral or scribal ‘improvement’.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.

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