Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 78 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Ævidrápa 8)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 894.
Varð ek at vári víss, at gørðuz
brynþings boðar Bjarma at sækja.
Síðan kvaddak Sigurð ok Guðmund;
vilda ek með fræknum til farar ráðaz.
Ek varð víss at vári, at {boðar {brynþings}} gørðuz at sækja Bjarma. Síðan kvaddak Sigurð ok Guðmund; ek vilda ráðaz til farar með fræknum.
‘I became aware in the spring that the offerers of the mailcoat-assembly [BATTLE > WARRIORS] were making ready to visit the Permians. Then I called on Sigurðr and Guðmundr; I wanted to be included in the expedition with the brave ones. ’
According to the prose saga (Ǫrv 1888, 20-5), Oddr asks his brother Guðmundr, and his cousin, Sigurðr, whether he could travel with them, on hearing that they are about to set out on an expedition northwards to Bjarmaland (Permia). They initially refuse, but relent after Guðmundr has had a frightening dream in which he sees Oddr’s fetch, in the shape of a polar bear, threatening to sink their ships.
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.
Varð ek at vári
víss, at gørðuz
brynþings boðar
Bjarma at sækja.
Síðan †kuadda ag†
Sigurð ok Guðmund;
vilda ek með fræknum
til farar ráðaz.
Vard ec at vori vis at giorduzt · brynþings bodar | biarma at sækia · sidan kuadda ag sigurd ok gudmund · villda ec med fræknum til farar ra | dazt ·
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Varð ek at vári
víss, at gørðiz
brynþings boðar
Bjarma at sækja.
Síðan kvaddak
Sigurð ok Guðmund;
vilda ek með fræknum
til farar ráðaz.
Varð ek at vári
víst, at fara
brynþings boðar
Bjarma at sækja.
Síðan kvaddak
Sigurð ok Guðmund;
vilda ek með fræknum
til farar ráðaz.
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