[1] hreyfðisk ‘gloated’: Although hreyfa can have the sense ‘move, stir’, the same verb describes ravens exulting over carrion in RvHbreiðm Hl 38/7III and Sturl Hrafn 10/5II, and Falk (1928a, 315-17) argues that it is better understood in the sense ‘puffed itself up, showed pride’, which he identifies as the original meaning of the verb; cf. also Harris (1985, 97). Sveinbjörn Egilsson (LP (1860): reifa) earlier read Reifðisk ‘was gladdened’, since the initial <h> is not found in any ms., but the word is consistently spelt with <y>.
References
- Bibliography
- LP (1860) = Sveinbjörn Egilsson, ed. 1860. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis. Copenhagen: Societas Regia antiquariorum septentrionalium.
- Falk, Hjalmar. 1928a. ‘Ordstudier I’. ANF 44, 315-24.
- Harris, Joseph. 1985. ‘Haraldskvæði’. In Strayer 1982-9, VI, 97-8.
- Internal references
- Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Rǫgnvaldr jarl and Hallr Þórarinsson, Háttalykill 38’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1046.
- Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Sturla Þórðarson, Hrafnsmál 10’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 735-6.