Peter Jorgensen (ed.) 2017, ‘Orms þáttr Stórólfssonar 12 (Ásbjǫrn, Ævikviða 9)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 615.
Mundi Ormr ófrýnn vera,
ef hann á kvöl þessa kynni at líta
ok grimmliga gjalda þursi
várar viðfarar víst, ef hann næði.
Ormr mundi vera ófrýnn, ef hann kynni at líta á þessa kvöl ok víst gjalda þursi viðfarar várar grimmliga, ef hann næði.
‘Ormr would be displeased if he could look upon this torment and certainly pay back the giant terribly for our [my] treatment, if he could. ’
The final stanza spoken by Ásbjǫrn as Brúsi the giant leads him around an iron pillar, and Ásbjǫrn’s intestines wind onto it. He dies immediately afterwards.
[1]: This line contains only three syllables, making it likely that desyllabification of final ‑r has occurred. The line probably contained four syllables, with Ormr disyllabic (Ormur).
Text is based on reconstruction from the base text and variant apparatus and may contain alternative spellings and other normalisations not visible in the manuscript text. Transcriptions may not have been checked and should not be cited.
Mundi Ormr
ófrýnn vera,
ef hann á kval þessa
kynni at líta
ok grimmliga
gjalda þursi
várar viðfarar
víst, ef hann næði.
Mundi Ormr
ófrýnn verða,
ef hann á kvöl þessa
†kappmenn fæe†
ok †gresslega†
gjalda þursi
†vor† viðfarar
víst, ef hann næði.
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XIII], E. 18. Vers af Fornaldarsagaer: Af Orms þáttr Stórólfssonar IV 9: AII, 344, BII, 365, Skald II, 198; ÓT 1689, 14, Fms 3, 221, Flat 1860-8, I, 528, Þorleifur Jónsson 1904, 214, Guðni Jónsson 1935, 185 (ch. 7), Guðni Jónsson 1946-9, 11, 457-8 (ch. 7), Faulkes 2011b, 71 (ch. 7) (OStór).
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