Anon Sól 43VII/2 — á ‘in’
Sól ek sá á sjónum skjálfandi
hræzlufullr ok hnipinn,
þvít hjarta mitt var harðla mjök
runnit sundr í sega.
Hræzlufullr ok hnipinn, sá ek sól, skjálfandi á sjónum, þvít hjarta mitt var harðla mjök runnit sundr í sega.
Terrified and cowed, I saw the sun, trembling in my eyes, for my heart had completely turned to shreds.
readings
[2] á: om. 2797ˣ
notes
[2] skjálfandi á sjónum ‘trembling in [my] eyes’: Sjónir (f. pl.) means ‘eyes’ or ‘sight’, though it is possible to take it, as Björn M. Ólsen does (1915, 44) as dat. sg. of sjór ‘sea’. Skjálfandi is universal in the mss; it could refer to sól ‘sun’ (f. acc. sg.) or ek ‘I’ (masc. nom. sg.); á is in almost all mss; Skj B omits it, and emends l. 2 to sjónum skjalfǫndum, translated med bævende öjne ‘with trembling eyes’; Skald includes á at the end of l. 1, while Falk, Björn M. Ólsen and Njörður Njarðvík retain á (as here) in l. 2. While the majority of eds conclude with Skj B that the narrator’s sight is trembling, Falk (1914a, 23) suggests that the sun appears to tremble to the frightened narrator, while Björn M. Ólsen (1915, 43) contends that the image is naturalistic; the sun appears to shiver as it sinks into the sea.