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Note to Forað Lv 5VIII (Ket 25)

[All]: The first two lines of the stanza have end-rhyme (snúa : gnúa), appropriately for a curse or imprecation, while l. 3 also produces a rhyming effect through the repeated grí- in two successive words. Some previous eds regard l. 4 as a later addition and either omit it (Edd. Min.) or place it within square brackets (Skj B). Kock (Skald) retains it (as does Rafn) but ‘improves’ the line by altering the word order, changing the verb to a subj. form and omitting the pron. hon: ok með gjálfri sínu komi. Kock also changes grípr (l. 3) to the subj. form gripi. The reason for the reversal of word order in l. 4 is Kock’s belief that the main alliterating word (here gjálfri) in the original form of any long-line could not have occupied the penultimate and ultimate syllables of the half-line (cf. NN §2402).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
  3. Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  4. NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  5. Edd. Min. = Heusler, Andreas and Wilhelm Ranisch, eds. 1903. Eddica Minora: Dichtungen eddischer Art aus den Fornaldarsögur und anderen Prosawerken. Dortmund: Ruhfus. Rpt. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.

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