Note to Án Lv 1^VIII (Án 1)

[1] sem skyldi ‘as he should’: In most previous eds the verb skyldi ‘should’ is emended to skyldit ‘should not’, presumably because it is thought that the stanza should indicate that Án is stronger than Bjǫrn and thus that Bjǫrn should not have overcome Án in the first round of the wrestling match. However, the prose exchange between Án and King Ingjaldr after the first round of the match suggests otherwise (FSGJ 2, 375): Konungr mælti þá: ‘Eigi þykkir mér þú, Án, jafnsterkr sem þú lézt.’ Án mælti: ‘Sá þykki mér, konungr, sterkari, er fyrri fellr’ ‘Then the king said: “It doesn’t seem to me as if you were as strong as you said, Án.” Án said: “The one who falls first seems to me the stronger of the two, king”’.

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