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Note to Hjálm Lv 9VIII (Ǫrv 19)

[4] Sóta ‘Sóti’: This is the only mention of a companion of Hjálmarr’s named Sóti in both Heiðr and Ǫrv, although ǪrvOdd Ævdr 43/1 (Ǫrv 113) names a Sóti as one of Oddr’s companions. It has been suggested (Ǫrv 1892, xvi, 58 n. 2; Edd. Min. lix; Heiðr 1960 xii, 9 n. 3) that Sóti and Hjálmarr may have been associated in an earlier version of the narrative, implying that Ǫrvar-Oddr became involved in it at a later stage. This seems a plausible hypothesis. Heusler and Ranisch (Edd. Min. 49) go so far as to name Sóti as the speaker of ǪrvOdd Lv 5 (Ǫrv 13). These are the only instances in poetry where Sóti occurs as the name of a man; elsewhere in poetry (LP: sóti) it appears as a horse-name, both in a þula, Anon Þorgþ 1/6III, and as the base-word of ship- and wolf-kennings.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
  3. Edd. Min. = Heusler, Andreas and Wilhelm Ranisch, eds. 1903. Eddica Minora: Dichtungen eddischer Art aus den Fornaldarsögur und anderen Prosawerken. Dortmund: Ruhfus. Rpt. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.
  4. Heiðr 1960 = Tolkien, Christopher, ed. and trans. 1960. Saga Heiðreks konungs ins vitra / The Saga of King Heidrek the Wise. Nelson Icelandic Texts. London etc.: Nelson.
  5. Ǫrv 1892 = Boer, R. C., ed. 1892a. Ǫrvar-Odds saga. Altnordische Saga-Bibliothek 2. Halle: Niemayer.
  6. Internal references
  7. 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 367. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=23> (accessed 8 May 2024)
  8. 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Ǫrvar-Odds saga’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 804. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=35> (accessed 8 May 2024)
  9. Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 113 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Ævidrápa 43)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 921.
  10. Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 13 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Lausavísur 5)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 826.

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