[8] borðker ‘the drinking cups’: Lit. ‘table-cups, cups at table’. This, the reading of 761bˣ and U, gives better sense than bjórker ‘beer casks’ (cf. ǫlker ‘ale cask’), the reading of the other SnE mss. It is also adopted by Müller (1837), Fsk 1902-3 and ÍF 29.
References
- Bibliography
- Fsk 1902-3 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1902-3. Fagrskinna: Nóregs kononga tal. SUGNL 30. Copenhagen: Møller.
- ÍF 29 = Ágrip af Nóregskonunga sǫgum; Fagrskinna—Nóregs konungatal. Ed. Bjarni Einarsson. 1985.
- Müller, Ludvig Christian. 1837. Islandsk Læsebog med tilhörende ordforklaring. Copenhagen: Gyldendal.
- Internal references
- Edith Marold 2017, ‘Snorra Edda (Prologue, Gylfaginning, Skáldskaparmál)’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols [check printed volume for citation].