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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Svart Skauf 40VIII

[5]: The line is hypometrical, with three syllables, and Jón Þorkelsson (1888) suggests moving the conj. sem ‘as’ to l. 1: fer mier svó sem ‘it shall happen to me as’. Such a construction is extremely awkward, however, because it forces a syntactic break between metrical positions 3 and 4. It is possible that a word such as ‘now’ (Fer mier nú svó) has been omitted.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Jón Þorkelsson [J. Thorkelsson]. 1888. Om digtningen på Island i det 15. og 16. århundrede. Copenhagen: Høst & søns forlag.

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