Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Friðþjófs saga ins frœkna 40 (Hringr konungr, Lausavísur 2)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 239.
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gefa (verb): give
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
[1] þér: so all others, om. 510
[1] fræknum ‘bold one’: The A redaction mss’ reading is preferred over B’s frægum ‘famous’, as inn frækni ‘the Bold’ appears to have been Friðþjófr’s nickname, oddly something expressed in the B text’s prose but not in A’s; cf. Note to Frið 21/7-8. Nevertheless, the adj. appears here in the A mss.
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Friðþjófr (noun m.)
[2] Friðþjófr: so Holm10 VI, 568ˣ, 27ˣ, 173ˣ, Friðþjófi 510, papp17ˣ, Friðþjóf 1006ˣ
[2] Friðþjófr: Following the reading of the majority of A recension mss, though not 510, the nom. case of the hero’s name has been selected, giving a direct address. Other mss (510, papp17ˣ) make the pers. n. in apposition to dat. þér and fræknum ‘to you bold Friðþjófr’, but this makes the line unmetrical.
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kona (noun f.; °-u; -ur/-r(KlmA1980 116¹¹), gen. pl. kvenna/kvinna): woman
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
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allr (adj.): all
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1. eiga (noun f.; °-u (nom. for obl. DN III (1347) 206¹³, etc., cf. Seip 1955 304); -ur): property
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King Hringr follows Frið 39 with this helmingr, introduced with ok enn kvað hann ‘and again he said’.
The stanza is in both A and B recension mss, with the exception of 109a IIˣ. The metre is fornyrðislag. Some eds (Edd. Min., Skj and Skald) treat this half-stanza together with Frið 41 as a single stanza with two parts and two speakers, Hringr and Friðþjófr.
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