Cite as: Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 122 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Ævidrápa 52)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 928.

Sigldum síðan suðr langt í haf, áðr ek grunnsævi grimmu mættak, svá at einn saman en öllu firðr gumna sinni gekk ek annan veg. Sigldum síðan suðr langt í haf, áðr ek grunnsævi grimmu mættak, svá at einn saman en öllu firðr gumna sinni gekk ek annan veg. Sigldum síðan langt suðr í haf, áðr ek mættak grimmu grunnsævi, svá at ek gekk annan veg einn saman en firðr öllu sinni gumna.

text prose order   We sailed then a long way south in the ocean before I came upon treacherous shallows, so that I went another way alone and deprived of all company of men.

notes: [5-8]: There are several reasons to think that the younger mss’ version of this helmingr is less good than that of 7: first, the sense is dubious in context and it is unclear who the crowd of men are who travelled the roads to Hel. While it is clear that Oddr himself follows his baptism by travelling to the Holy Land and thus acquiring Christian virtue, the only people who could be seen as travelling the roads to Hel are a band of robbers who, in the episode referred to in Ævdr 53, attacked and killed a bishop, and were killed by Oddr in return.

texts: ‹Ǫrv 122›

editions: Skj Anonyme digte og vers [XIII]: E. 10. Vers af Fornaldarsagaer: Af Ǫrvar-Oddssaga IX 52 (AII, 315; BII, 334-5); Skald II, 179; Ǫrv 1888, 117, 205, Ǫrv 1892, 65, 99, FSGJ 2, 356; Edd. Min. 57.

sources

Holm perg 7 4° (7)	52r, 32 - 52r, 33	(Ǫrv)
AM 343 a 4° (343a)	81r, 29 - 81r, 31	(Ǫrv)
AM 471 4° (471)	95v - 95v	(Ǫrv)
AM 173 folx (173x)	64ra, 2 - 64ra, 9	(Ǫrv)
AM 344 b 4°x (344bx)	34r, 20 - 34r, 21	(Ǫrv)