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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Anon (FoGT) 19III

[1] æli ‘a wretch’: Ms. W has ‘Øle’. Sveinbjörn Egilsson (SnE 1848-87, II, 216-17 n. 7) argued for the spelling auli, but there is no problem with <ø> representing original [ø:], later [æ:]. Æli occurs in Old Icelandic nowhere else as a simplex, though the cpd mannæli ‘wretched fellow’ is recorded once, in Finnb (ÍF 14, 256), and in later Icelandic the form ælingi occurs with a similar sense. Corresponding forms are more evident in Norwegian (see Jón Helgason 1970a, 212 for examples).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. 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.
  3. ÍF 14 = Kjalnesinga saga. Ed. Jóhannes Halldórsson. 1959.
  4. Jón Helgason. 1970a. ‘Þriðji íhaldskarl’. Fróðskaparrit 18, 206-26.

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