Note to Svart Skauf 30^VIII

[1] eg hef ‘I’ve’: Rendered in 603 as ‘Hef^c’. This is a highly unusual abbreviation, because the personal pron. eg ‘I’ is otherwise spelled out ‘eg’ or abbreviated as ‘e^c’. The only explanation seems to be that the C16th scribe was copying an earlier ms. in which the ‘ec’ was cliticised (‘Hefc’) and that he did not understand the form (pers. comm. Kirsten Wolf). That contraction is early and speaks strongly against a late C15th date for this poem (see Introduction above). The Rask87ˣ variant hefi eg (here and passim) is also possible (see ANG §532.6 and Bandle 1956, 421). Hef is an early form and rare both in the C14th and C15th (see Björn K. Þórólfsson 1925, 53, 64). See also Note to st. 37/5.

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