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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Keth Lv 11VIII (Ket 16)

[3] at uppiverandi sólu ‘while the sun is up’: This expression is a prepositional phrase which closely resembles an ablative absolute in Latin: at + p. p. in the dat. (verandi ‘being’ = pres. p. of vera ‘be’). A more lit. translation would be ‘with the sun being up’. Such constructions are more common in Old Norse prose texts, but Hárb 58/2 provides a very similar example from eddic poetry (see also the examples cited in NS §229 Anm. 2; Nygaard 1879, 207; Fritzner: at 11; ONP: at I. + dat. C. (temp.) 1).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Fritzner = Fritzner, Johan. 1883-96. Ordbog over det gamle norske sprog. 3 vols. Kristiania (Oslo): Den norske forlagsforening. 4th edn. Rpt. 1973. Oslo etc.: Universitetsforlaget.
  3. NS = Nygaard, Marius. 1906. Norrøn syntax. Kristiania (Oslo): Aschehoug. Rpt. 1966.
  4. ONP = Degnbol, Helle et al., eds. 1989-. A Dictionary of Old Norse Prose / Ordbog over det norrøne prosasprog. 1-. Copenhagen: The Arnamagnæan Commission.
  5. Nygaard, Marius. 1879. ‘Om brugen af det saakaldte præsens particip i Oldnorsk’. ÅNOH, 203-28.
  6. Internal references
  7. Not published: do not cite ()

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