In a message dated 6/26/01 5:33:11 AM Pacific Daylight Time, keth@...
writes:


Hi Birgit,
Finnur Jónsson, the great Icelandic expert on Old Norse poetry,
has Vo,luspó,, verse 1, line 8 as "þaus fre,mst of man."
(a comma after the vowels e and o, indicates a "hook" that
in Finnur's book has been printed *underneath* the vowel)

I do not really know why Finnur chose to write "of", if
the Mss. said "um". But the following dictionary entry
might perhaps give a clue:

"of" = preposition, which is later replaced by "um" and
sometimes by "yfir".

Finnur writes:
Hovedhåndskriftet af eddakvadene har fået navnet codex regius ...
codex regius er nr. 2365 4'o' i den gamle samling og består af
45 blade.

Best regards
Keth



Greetings Keth,
Codex Regius does not have OF, I have the photocopy of the page here at home.
 It has "U" with a sign that indicates the "m", but that part is a little
smudgy in the manuscript.

Is Finnur trying to reconstruct an even older version, the way it was before
Codex Regius was written down?
Regards, Birgit