Cite as: Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 141 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Ævidrápa 71)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 947.
Þér skuluð skunda til skips ofan
heilir allir hér mun ek dveljaz. |
Berið Silkisif ok sonum okrum
kveðju góða; kem ek eigi þar. |
Þér skuluð allir skunda heilir ofan til skips; ek mun dveljaz hér. Berið Silkisif ok sonum okrum góða kveðju; ek kem eigi þar.
You must all hurry safe down to the ship; I will stay here. Carry [my] good greeting to Silkisif and our sons; I will not come there.
Mss: 7(57r), 343a(81v), 471(96r), 173ˣ(65rb) (Ǫrv)
Readings: [1] skuluð: om. 343a [4] hér mun ek dveljaz: hér munum skiljaz 343a, 471, 173ˣ [7] góða: mína 343a, 471, 173ˣ [8] eigi: ei 173ˣ
Editions: Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XIII], E. 10. Vers af Fornaldarsagaer: Af Ǫrvar-Oddssaga IX 71: AII, 319, BII, 338-9, Skald II, 182; Ǫrv 1888, 195, 208, Ǫrv 1892, 95, 100, FSGJ 2, 362; Edd. Min. 58.
Notes: [All]: The final stanza of the Ævdr in the younger mss; for the context of citation in 7, see Ǫrv 140 Note to [All]. — [5] Silkisif: Name of Oddr’s wife,
the daughter of King Herrauðr of Húnaland.
