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Note to ESk Frag 11III

[1] gráns (m. or n. gen. sg.) ‘hostile’: The only word that can be qualified by this adj. is Heita (m. gen. sg.) ‘of Heiti’, and gráns Heita ‘of the hostile Heiti’ is taken here to refer to the raging ocean (see also Note to Þfagr Frag 1/3). Skj B and Skald emend to gránn (m. nom. sg.) and take the adj. with holmfjǫturr (m. nom. sg.): gránn holmfjǫturr ‘the grey island-fetter’. Faulkes (SnE 1998) adopts the U variant and reads stafnar snekkju grams ‘the prows of the king’s warship’, which causes a lack of internal rhyme in l. 1 and is not supported by the other ms. witnesses.

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. SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
  5. Internal references
  6. Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Þorleikr fagri, Fragments 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 484.

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