ǪrvOdd Ævdr 1VIII (Ǫrv 71)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 71 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Ævidrápa 1)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 888.
Hlýði ‘Listen’
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2. hlýða (verb): hear, listen; be able
seggir ‘men’
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seggr (noun m.; °; -ir): man
en ‘and’
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2. en (conj.): but, and
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
segja ‘tell’
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segja (verb): say, tell
mun ‘will’
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munu (verb): will, must
vígs ‘of slaughter’
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víg (noun n.; °-s; -): battle
kennings
völdundum vígs‘causers of slaughter ’
= WARRIORS
causers of slaughter → WARRIORS
völdundum ‘causers’
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1. valdandi (noun m.): ruler
[3] völdundum: so 471, ‘valldindvm’ 343a, ‘vigsvolluðum’ 173ˣ
kennings
völdundum vígs‘causers of slaughter ’
= WARRIORS
causers of slaughter → WARRIORS
frá ‘about’
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frá (prep.): from
vinum ‘friends’
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vinr (noun m.; °-ar, dat. -/(-i OsvReyk 92.17); -ir): friend
mínum ‘my’
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minn (pron.; °f. mín, n. mitt): my
Seint ‘late’
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seinn (adj.; °seinan; compar. seinni, superl. seinstr/seinastr): slow, late
[5] Seint: so 471, 173ˣ, ‘seimt’ 343a
sé ‘see’
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2. sjá (verb): see
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
eigi ‘not’
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3. eigi (adv.): not
skógs ‘of the bow’
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skógr (noun m.; °-ar/-s, dat. -i; -ar): forest
kennings
skæstafr skógs‘the advancing stave of the bow ’
= WARRIOR = I
the advancing stave of the bow → WARRIOR = I
notes
[7] skæstafr skógs ‘the advancing stave of the bow [WARRIOR = I]’: The word skæstafr ‘the advancing stave’, the reading of both 471 and 173ˣ, is a hap. leg. of uncertain meaning, while 343a’s reading ‘bæstafr’ is not an Old Norse word. Skógr is used here in the uncommon sense ‘bow’ (cf. LP: 2. skógr) rather than ‘wood, forest’, its common meaning. The kenning stafr skógs ‘stave of the bow’ would make an acceptable warrior-kenning on its own, but the first element of the cpd, skæ- is difficult to assign a meaning (cf. LP: skæstafr). The horse-heiti skær ‘sprinter’ (Þul Hesta 1/8III) is not appropriate here, while there is a difficulty with the only other possible connection, with the cognate verb skæva ‘advance, rush [forward]’ (cf. LP, LT: skæva), in that the <v> of the stem skæv- is not present in the cpd under discussion. However, ‘advancing, rushing stave’ seems the most likely meaning for skæstafr, although Kock (NN §121) argues for a derivation from skæra, to which he attributes the same sense as skæva.
skæstafr ‘the advancing stave’
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skæstafr (noun m.): […-stave]
[7] skæstafr: so 471, 173ˣ, ‘bæstafr’ 343a
kennings
skæstafr skógs‘the advancing stave of the bow ’
= WARRIOR = I
the advancing stave of the bow → WARRIOR = I
notes
[7] skæstafr skógs ‘the advancing stave of the bow [WARRIOR = I]’: The word skæstafr ‘the advancing stave’, the reading of both 471 and 173ˣ, is a hap. leg. of uncertain meaning, while 343a’s reading ‘bæstafr’ is not an Old Norse word. Skógr is used here in the uncommon sense ‘bow’ (cf. LP: 2. skógr) rather than ‘wood, forest’, its common meaning. The kenning stafr skógs ‘stave of the bow’ would make an acceptable warrior-kenning on its own, but the first element of the cpd, skæ- is difficult to assign a meaning (cf. LP: skæstafr). The horse-heiti skær ‘sprinter’ (Þul Hesta 1/8III) is not appropriate here, while there is a difficulty with the only other possible connection, with the cognate verb skæva ‘advance, rush [forward]’ (cf. LP, LT: skæva), in that the <v> of the stem skæv- is not present in the cpd under discussion. However, ‘advancing, rushing stave’ seems the most likely meaning for skæstafr, although Kock (NN §121) argues for a derivation from skæra, to which he attributes the same sense as skæva.
sköpum ‘fate’
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1. skap (noun n.; °-s; *-): mind, fate
gera ‘prevent’
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1. gera (verb): do, make
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The beginning of the Ævdr is marked by a large red-coloured initial H in 471. — [1-2]: The introductory formula of these lines is comparable to Vsp 1/1-4 and Þhorn Harkv 1/1-2I. It is also reminiscent of the introductory appeal to a listening audience in some late medieval romances; cf. the Middle English Octavian 1-3 (Mills 1973, 75): Lytyll and mykyll, olde and yonge, | Lystenyth now to my talkynge, | Of whome Y wyll yow [k]ythe; ‘Small and great, old and young, listen now to what I say, [and] about whom I will make known to you’.
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