Cite as: Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 116 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Ævidrápa 46)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 924.

Fórum heim þaðan hoskir drengir, en haug Þórði hávan urpum. Maðr engi þorði oss mót gera; var oss vættegis vant ins góða. Fórum heim þaðan hoskir drengir, en haug Þórði hávan urpum. Maðr engi þorði oss mót gera; var oss vættegis vant ins góða. Fórum heim þaðan, hoskir drengir, en urpum Þórði hávan haug. Engi maðr þorði gera oss mót; var oss vættegis vant ins góða.

text prose order   We travelled home from there, wise fellows, and threw up a high burial mound for Þórðr. No man dared to act against us; there was no lack to us of what was good.

notes: The prose text tells that Oddr and his men carry Þórðr’s corpse back to Sweden and raise a mound over him there (Ǫrv 1888, 94-5). The second helmingr probably refers to their reception after they return to Uppsala. — [1-4]: All mss have the verbs fórum ‘we travelled’ (l. 1) and 343a and 173ˣ have urpum ‘we threw up’ (l. 4), while 471 has urpu ‘they threw up’ in the second instance. Skj B emends to make both verbs 3rd pers. pl., though the 1st pers. pl. forms are perfectly acceptable. — [7-8]: These lines are very similar to Vsp 8/3-4 (NK 2) var þeim vættergis | vant ór gulli ‘they [the gods] had no lack of gold at all’.

texts: ‹Ǫrv 116›

editions: Skj Anonyme digte og vers [XIII]: E. 10. Vers af Fornaldarsagaer: Af Ǫrvar-Oddssaga IX 46 (AII, 314; BII, 333); Skald II, 179, NN §3290B; Ǫrv 1888, 204, FSGJ 2, 354.

sources

AM 343 a 4° (343a)	81r, 21 - 81r, 22	(Ǫrv)
AM 471 4° (471)	95r - 95r	(Ǫrv)
AM 173 folx (173x)	63va, 17 - 63va, 24	(Ǫrv)
AM 344 b 4°x (344bx)	34r, 10 - 34r, 11	(Ǫrv)