Note to Anon (FoGT) 37III
[5-8]: The interpretation of this helmingr follows those of Björn Magnússon Ólsen (FoGT 1884, 289-90) and Kock (NN §1410) rather than Finnur Jónsson (Skj B), who construes borgar niða ‘of the stronghold of the phases of the moon’ (l. 8) with að djúpi ‘to the deep’ (l. 5) rather than with um hávar hljóðraufar ‘across the high sound-crevices’ (l. 7), in order to provide one abyss in heaven, the other below it, but his interpretation fails to take account of the prose text’s commentary vnderdivp vatnanna kallar ꜳ̋ annat vnderdivp vm þær himinborvr sem katerakte kallaz ‘the abyss of the waters calls to the other abyss across those heaven-holes that are called cataracts’.
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.
- NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- 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.