Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 55 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Lausavísur 22)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 869.
Váru vit Ásmundr opt í bernsku
fóstbræðr saman báðir litnir.
Bar ek fyr stilli stöng darraðar,
þar sem konungar kappi deildu.
Váru vit Ásmundr fóstbræðr litnir báðir saman opt í bernsku. Ek bar stöng darraðar fyr stilli, þar sem konungar deildu kappi.
‘Ásmundr and I, the foster-brothers, were seen both together often in our childhood. I bore the pole of the banner before the ruler, where kings tried their courage. ’
As for Ǫrv 53.
[2-3]: Both Skj B and Skald prefer 471’s text of these lines, which alliterate, fóstbræðr tveir | fullvel saman ‘two foster-brothers fully together’, i.e. in full accord.
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.
Váru vit Ásmundr
opt í bernsku
fóstbræðr saman
báðir litnir.
Bar fyr stilli
stöng darraðar,
þars konungar
kappi deildu.
Voru vit asmundr opt i bernsku fostbro᷎ðr saman baðir litnir · bar firir stilli staung | darraðar · þars konungar kappi deilldu ·
(HA)
Váru vit Ásmundr
opt í bernsku
fóstbræðr saman
báðir litlir .
Bar ek
stöng darraðar,
þar sem konungar
kappi deildu.
Váru vit Ásmundr
opt í bernsku
fóstbræðr †ij.†
full vel saman .
Bar ek stundar opt
stöng darraðar,
þar sem konungar
kappi deildu.
Váru vit Ásmundr
opt í bernsku
fóstbræðr saman
báðir litnir.
Bar ek stöng darraðar
döglings lengi ,
þar sem konungar
kappi deildu.
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