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Note to Svart Skauf 9VIII

[5] hál rófubein ‘slippery tailbones’: Hál ‘slippery’ is taken as an adj. (n. nom. pl.) here. Kölbing (1876) renders this as halrófubein without comment (so also Jón Þorkelsson 1922-7: halrófu bein). CPB has hala-rófu-bein (followed by Páll Eggert Ólason 1947: halarófu bein), which Guðbrandur Vigfússon (CPB II, 610) glosses as ‘tail bone of a tail’, stating that the first element of the cpd is superfluous and was added to furnish alliteration. Following Rask87ˣ, Jón Þorkelsson (1888) gives hálróu bein without an explanation, and the word hálróu is obscure. ‑Róu could be a short form of ‑rófu (f. gen. sg.) ‘tail’ (see Note to st. 13/2 and Jón Þorkelsson 1922-7 halrófu), but hál- (or hal-) is difficult to make sense of as the first element in this cpd.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. CPB = Gudbrand Vigfusson [Guðbrandur Vigfússon] and F. York Powell, eds. 1883. Corpus poeticum boreale: The Poetry of the Old Northern Tongue from the Earliest Times to the Thirteenth Century. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon. Rpt. 1965, New York: Russell & Russell.
  3. Jón Þorkelsson [J. Thorkelsson]. 1888. Om digtningen på Island i det 15. og 16. århundrede. Copenhagen: Høst & søns forlag.
  4. Kölbing, Eugen. 1876. Beiträge zur vergleichenden Geschichte der romantischen Poesie und Prosa des Mittelalters unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der englishen und nordischen litteratur. Breslau: Koebner.
  5. Páll Eggert Ólason, ed. 1947. Kvæðasafn 1300-1600. Vol. 2 of Einar Ólafur Sveinsson et al., eds. Íslands þúsund ár. 4 vols. Reykjavík: Helgafell.
  6. Internal references
  7. Russell Poole 2012, ‘ Eyvindr skáldaspillir Finnsson, Háleygjatal’ 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. 195. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1186> (accessed 29 March 2024)

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