Cite as: Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 67 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Lausavísur 30)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 882.
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Efldu mik örvar
ok Jólfs smíði,
stórgör skeyti
ok stinnr bogi,
ok þat it fimta,
er þú fregna skalt,
at ek við ásu
aldri þýddumk.
Efldu mik örvar
ok Jólfs smíði,
stórgör skeyti
ok stinnr bogi,
ok þat it fimta,
er þú fregna skalt,
at ek við ásu
aldri þýddumk.
Örvar ok smíði Jólfs efldu mik, stórgör skeyti ok stinnr bogi, ok þat it fimta, er þú skalt fregna, at ek þýddumk aldri við ásu.
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The arrows and Jólfr’s handiwork aided me, the huge shafts and the strong bow, and the fifth thing which you must hear of, that I never submitted to the gods. |
context: Oddr replies to Gyðja’s questions in the previous
stanza.
notes: Ms. 471 is almost illegible in several places for this stanza and the next two (Ǫrv 68 and 69) and some of its readings are uncertain. — [5-8]: As with many of the other stanzas in this dialogue, and the Bjálkaland episode as a whole, especially in the versions younger than 7, Oddr is made out to be strongly opposed to Old Norse paganism. Earlier in the saga (Ǫrv 1888, 9), Oddr has professed himself opposed to pagan sacrifice (blót), preferring to rely on his own powers.
texts: ‹Ǫrv 67›
editions: Skj Anonyme digte og vers [XIII]: E. 10. Vers af Fornaldarsagaer: Af Ǫrvar-Oddssaga VIII 9 (Od. - AII, 305; BII, 323-4); Skald II, 173; Ǫrv 1888, 182, FSGJ 2, 330-1; Edd. Min. 75.
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