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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Þrándr Kredda 1I

[1] gangat ‘I do not go’: The form contains the negative suffix ‑at, but, unusually, lacks an explicit (e)k ‘I’ (as observed by Foote 1969a, 361). Kock (NN §3064) drew attention to the non-standard form of the verb ganga here, believing it to be a weak form. Foote, however, is sceptical about this. He considers the possibility of a rare optative (subj.) form (ibid., 361-2, citing NS §182(a)), but ultimately inclines to see gangat as a Faroese form *gang- (ibid., 362-3).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  3. NS = Nygaard, Marius. 1906. Norrøn syntax. Kristiania (Oslo): Aschehoug. Rpt. 1966.
  4. Foote, Peter G. 1969a. ‘A Note on Þránd’s kredda’. In Jakob Benediktsson 1969, 355-63. Rpt. with postscript in Foote 1984a, 199-208.

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