Cite as: Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 55 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Lausavísur 22)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 869.

Váru vit Ásmundr opt í bernsku fóstbræðr saman báðir litnir. Bar ek fyr stilli stöng darraðar, þar sem konungar kappi deildu. Váru vit Ásmundr opt í bernsku fóstbræðr saman báðir litnir. Bar ek fyr stilli stöng darraðar, þar sem konungar kappi deildu. Váru vit Ásmundr fóstbræðr litnir báðir saman opt í bernsku. Ek bar stöng darraðar fyr stilli, þar sem konungar deildu kappi.

text prose order   Ásmundr and I, the foster-brothers, were seen both together often in our childhood. I bore the pole of the banner before the ruler, where kings tried their courage.

context: As for Ǫrv 53.

notes: [2-3]: Both Skj B and Skald prefer 471’s text of these lines, which alliterate, fóstbræðr tveir | fullvel saman ‘two foster-brothers fully together’, i.e. in full accord.

texts: ‹Ǫrv 55›

editions: Skj Anonyme digte og vers [XIII]: E. 10. Vers af Fornaldarsagaer: Af Ǫrvar-Oddssaga VII 22 (AII, 302; BII, 321); Skald II, 171, FF §39, NN §1205B; Ǫrv 1888, 166, Ǫrv 1892, 84, FSGJ 2, 319; Edd. Min. 70.

sources

Holm perg 7 4° (7)	55r, 15 - 55r, 16	(Ǫrv)
AM 344 a 4° (344a)	22r, 6 - 22r, 7	(Ǫrv)
AM 343 a 4° (343a)	77v, 17 - 77v, 19	(Ǫrv)
AM 471 4° (471)	89r - 89r	(Ǫrv)
AM 173 folx (173x)	54r, 20 - 54r, 23	(Ǫrv)
AM 344 b 4°x (344bx)	28v, 10 - 28v, 11	(Ǫrv)