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Note to Keth Lv 5VIII (Ket 9)

[5-6] skal hlíf höggvin ‘the shield will be hacked [to pieces]’: Hlif ‘the shield’ lit. ‘protection’. Höggvin or höggin (so 343a) is a f. form of the p. p. of the verb höggva ‘hew, cut’ (ANG §503). This is an elliptical passive construction in which the inf. vera ‘be’ has been left out (cf. LT: 2vera).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. ANG = Noreen, Adolf. 1923. Altnordische Grammatik I: Altisländische und altnorwegische Grammatik (Laut- und Flexionslehre) unter Berücksichtigung des Urnordischen. 4th edn. Halle: Niemeyer. 1st edn. 1884. 5th unrev. edn. 1970. Tübingen: Niemeyer.
  3. LT = La Farge, Beatrice and John Tucker. 1992. Glossary to the Poetic Edda, based on Hans Kuhn’s Kurzes Wörterbuch. Skandinavistische Arbeiten 15. Heidelberg: Winter.

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