Anon Oddm 1I
R. D. Fulk (ed.) 2012, ‘Anonymous Poems, Oddmjór 1’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1001.
Skjǫldungr ‘monarch’
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skjǫldungr (noun m.): king
rak ‘drove’
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2. reka (verb): drive, force
með ‘with’
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með (prep.): with
notes
[1] með skildi ‘with his shield’: The image of repelling a ship with a shield is presumably metonymic, referring to military might, rather than literal. Alternatively, the phrase could be taken (as in Skj B) to qualify skjǫldungr ‘monarch’ rather than rak ‘drove’.
skildi ‘shield’
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skjǫldr (noun m.; °skjaldar/skildar, dat. skildi; skildir, acc. skjǫldu): shield
notes
[1] með skildi ‘with his shield’: The image of repelling a ship with a shield is presumably metonymic, referring to military might, rather than literal. Alternatively, the phrase could be taken (as in Skj B) to qualify skjǫldungr ‘monarch’ rather than rak ‘drove’.
skeiðar ‘warship’
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1. skeið (noun f.; °-ar; -r/-ar/-ir): ship
notes
[2] brand skeiðar ‘the prow of the warship’: Ágr identifies Skeiðar-Brandr as a pers. n., and this cannot be ruled out. However, it has usually been seen as a misunderstanding, and brand skeiðar is more likely to be a noun phrase meaning ‘decorative piece of wood on the side of the prow of a warship’, hence ‘(enemy’s) ship’ by synecdoche: cf. Arn Hryn 7/4II, and see Skj B, LP: skeiðarbrandr, Turville-Petre (1953, 173), von See (1977b, 64) and Frank (1978, 159); cf. also Jesch (2001a, 147-8) on brandr and Note to ÞjóðA Magnfl 12/7II on skeiðr.
brand ‘prow’
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brandr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): sword, prow; fire
notes
[2] brand skeiðar ‘the prow of the warship’: Ágr identifies Skeiðar-Brandr as a pers. n., and this cannot be ruled out. However, it has usually been seen as a misunderstanding, and brand skeiðar is more likely to be a noun phrase meaning ‘decorative piece of wood on the side of the prow of a warship’, hence ‘(enemy’s) ship’ by synecdoche: cf. Arn Hryn 7/4II, and see Skj B, LP: skeiðarbrandr, Turville-Petre (1953, 173), von See (1977b, 64) and Frank (1978, 159); cf. also Jesch (2001a, 147-8) on brandr and Note to ÞjóðA Magnfl 12/7II on skeiðr.
ór ‘out of’
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3. ór (prep.): out of
landi ‘country’
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land (noun n.; °-s; *-): land
réð ‘governed’
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ráða (verb): advise, rule, interpret, decide
sá ‘that’
konungr ‘king’
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konungr (noun m.; °dat. -i, -s; -ar): king
síðan ‘afterwards’
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síðan (adv.): later, then
snjallr ‘excellent’
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snjallr (adj.): quick, resourceful, bold
Nóregi ‘Norway’
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Noregr (noun m.): Norway
ǫllum ‘all’
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allr (adj.): all
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The helmingr is cited in evidence of an account of how Haraldr hárfagri defeated a king by the name of Skeiðar-Brandr at the battle of Hafrsfjǫrðr (Hafrsfjorden, here called Hafrsvágr, c. 885-c. 890).
Munch (Ágr 1834, 274-5) points out the resemblance of ll. 1-2 to Arn Hryn 7/3-4II (see the next Note), and Sveinbjörn Egilsson (SHI 10, 351) remarks the resemblance between ll. 3-4 and Arn Magndr 7/1-2II, so it is possible that Oddm is a mere conflation of the two sources. — [3]: The metrical Type C with hending in position 1 is not used before the early C11th: see Kuhn (1969a) and Gade (2001b, 66-8).
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