Note to Bǫðmóðr Lv 3VIII (Ket 32)
[1] reyndr ‘experienced’: Lines 1-2 contain no words that alliterate, and some previous eds have introduced or suggested various emendations to replace the p. p. reyndr ‘experienced’ with a word that alliterates with ganga or hervígis: Finnur Jónsson emends reyndr to gamall ‘old’ (Skj B), but other eds suggest words beginning with <h>: the p. p. hremdr (‘badly treated, anxious’, Valdimar Ásmundarson 1885-9, 2, vii; cf. Edd. Min. 83 n.), the adj. hrumr ‘weak, feeble’, Edd. Min. 83 n., or the p. p. *heyndr ‘felled’ (Skald), a word not attested in Old Norse but which Kock postulates on the grounds that there are corresponding words in Gothic and Old English (NN §794). Since the mss all have the reading reyndr, it is useless to speculate about the original wording of the passage (neither CPB II, 559 nor FSGJ emend the line).
References
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- Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
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