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Note to Án Lv 2VIII (Án 2)

[2] þú stendr nær sjó ‘you stand near the sea’: Finnur Jónsson (Skj B) and Kock (Skald) omit the pers. pron. þú ‘you’ but retain the word sjór/sær and change the one-syllable dat. form sjó to the two-syllable form sævi, presumably in order to obtain a four-syllable half-line and to provide an unaccented syllable between the two monosyllabic words sjó and nær (cf. Läffler 1912, 3, 61-3). Guðni Jónsson (FSGJ) prints the two-syllable dat. form sævi as well, although he also retains þú. In any case the dat. form sjó is perfectly acceptable from the point of view of grammar, since both the case-ending [i] and the stem consonant [w] are dropped in later Icelandic (cf. ANG §365).

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. ANG = Noreen, Adolf. 1923. Altnordische Grammatik I: Altisländische und altnorwegische Grammatik (Laut- und Flexionslehre) unter Berücksichtigung des Urnordischen. 4th edn. Halle: Niemeyer. 1st edn. 1884. 5th unrev. edn. 1970. Tübingen: Niemeyer.
  5. FSGJ = Guðni Jónsson, ed. 1954. Fornaldar sögur norðurlanda. 4 vols. [Reykjavík]: Íslendingasagnaútgáfan.
  6. Läffler, Leopold Frederik. 1912. ‘En kärleksvisa i Áns saga bogsveigis’. Studier i nordisk filologi 3, 1-65.

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