Note to Anon (FoGT) 16III
[All]: Both this dróttkvætt stanza and st. 15 read like examples specially invented to illustrate a textbook. As Longo (FoGT 2004, 184) has pointed out, FoGT’s example is likely to have been influenced by the example of hendiadys given in Alexander of Villa Dei’s Doctrinale (Reichling 1893, 174, ll. 2586-8), where armatum virum ‘armed man’ is split into two nouns arma virumque ‘arms and the man’ (the first two words of Virgil’s Aeneid), and conversely arma virumque is transformed into armatoque viro ‘by the armed man’.
References
- Bibliography
- 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.
- Reichling, Dietrich, ed. 1893. Das Doctrinale des Alexander de Villa-Dei. Monumenta Germaniae paedagogica 12. Berlin: A. Hofmann & Comp. Rpt. 1974. Burt Franklin Research and Source Works Series, Studies in the History of Education 11. New York: Burt Franklin.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, The Fourth Grammatical Treatise’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=34> (accessed 25 April 2024)