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Note to HalldR Lv 1I

[8] ber ‘carry’: (a) The verb is taken here (as in Skj B and Skald) as imp. ber, the spelling in the Bæb transcripts. This links with the call for a drink in l. 1 and produces a syntactic and semantic match with Ólhelg Lv 1/8 fœr mér ok þér ‘bring it to me and you’. In both cases the utterance is slightly illogical: ‘carry/bring [the horn] to me and you’. (b) It could alternatively be taken as 3rd pers. sg. pres. indic. berr, the spelling in Flat, probably with the sense ‘suits’, which would also fit with the dat. mér ok þér ‘me and you’. The subject would be unexpressed: presumably the drinking-horn mentioned earlier in the stanza. (c) The 61 reading fœr ‘bring’ matches Ólhelg Lv 1/8 exactly but has less ms. support and fails to provide alliteration.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
  3. Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  4. Internal references
  5. Russell Poole (ed.) 2012, ‘Óláfr inn helgi Haraldsson, Lausavísur 1’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 517.

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