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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Forað Lv 6VIII (Ket 27)/3 — ok ‘and’

Flaug ok Fífu         hugða ek fjarri vera,
        ok hræðumz ek ei Hremsu bit.

Ek hugða Flaug ok Fífu vera fjarri, ok hræðumz ek ei bit Hremsu.

I thought Flaug and Fífa were far away, and I do not fear Hremsa’s bite.

readings

[3] ok: om. 471

notes

[3] ok hræðumz ek ei Hremsu bit ‘and I do not fear Hremsa’s bite’: Some previous eds (Finnur Jónsson, Kock, Edd. Min.) improve this line to reduce the number of syllables: they substitute hræðumkat ‘I do not fear’ or hræddumkat ‘I do not fear’, a verb form (m. v.) with the enclitic negative particle ‑at, for hræðumz ek ei. Guðni Jónsson (FSGJ) and Rafn (FSN) retain ek but change the negative particle to eigi.

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