Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 123 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Ævidrápa 53)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 930.
Þar kom ek útarst, er Akvitána
bragna kindir borgum réðu.
Þar lét ek fjóra fallna liggja
hrausta drengi; nú em ek hér kominn.
Ek kom útarst, þar er kindir bragna Akvitána réðu borgum. Þar lét ek fjóra hrausta drengi liggja fallna; nú em ek kominn hér.
‘I came furthest out to where the kin of the men of the Aquitainians ruled the towns. There I caused four strong men to lie dead; now I have come here. ’
In 7 this stanza occurs before Ævdr 53, following the sequence of the prose narrative, while in 471 it occurs after Ævdr 54. According to the prose saga (Ǫrv 1888, 112-17) Oddr and his kinsmen Sigurðr and Guðmundr travel south from Hrafnista one spring to go raiding in Southern Europe. They find themselves in Aquitaine, where they encounter Christians. (In 7 Oddr’s encounter with Christianity comes in Sicily, where he is baptised by an abbot named Hugi. He then travels to Aquitaine.) Although the versions of the saga differ on this point, in all versions Oddr fights against a group of assailants who threaten the Christians. In 7 they are four chieftains, in the other mss four men who attack a religious procession and cut off a bishop’s head with long knives. This incident is also mentioned in Ǫrv 37/5-8.
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.
Þar kom ek útarst,
er Akvitána
bragna kindir
borgum réðu.
Þar lét ek fjóra
fallna liggja
hrausta drengi;
nú er ek hér kominn.
Þar kom ek utarst es aqvitana · bragna kinndir borgum reðu · þar let ek iiij · fall | na liggia hrausta dreingi nu er ek her kominn ·
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Enn kom ek þar ,
at Akvitánía
bragna kindir
borgum réðu.
Þar lét ek fjóra
falla liggja
hrausta drengi;
nú em ek hér kominn.
Enn kom ek þar ,
er Akvitánía
bragna kindir
borgum réðu.
Þar lét ek fjóra
fallna liggja
hrausta drengi;
nú er ek hér kominn.
Enn kom ek þar ,
at Akvitánía
bragna kindir
borgum réðu.
Þar lét ek fjóra
fallna liggja
hrausta drengi;
nú er ek hér kominn.
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