Cite as: Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 76 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Ævidrápa 6)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 892.

Létum beiti á brim þrauka; stóð hörr dreginn höndum fjarri. Kómum at eyju útan brattri, þar er Grímr fyrir garða átti. Létum beiti á brim þrauka; stóð hörr dreginn höndum fjarri. Kómum at eyju útan brattri, þar er Grímr fyrir garða átti. Létum beiti þrauka á brim; hörr stóð dreginn fjarri höndum. Kómum útan at brattri eyju, þar er Grímr átti garða fyrir.

text prose order   We allowed the ship to roll on the sea; the sail rope was pulled tight far from our hands. We arrived at the steep island, where Grímr owned properties.

notes: According to the saga prose (Ǫrv 1888, 18-19) Oddr and Ásmundr have an easy sea journey north to Hrafnista, after Oddr has invoked his ancestor, Ketill hœngr’s, ability to call up a favourable wind to avoid having to row all the way. However, the first helmingr of this stanza may not agree with this information, as it appears to describe how the ship encountered heavy seas (see Notes to ll. 2 and 3-4 below). — [5-6]: These lines are exactly the same as Ǫrv 87/1-2.

texts: ‹Ǫrv 76›

editions: Skj Anonyme digte og vers [XIII]: E. 10. Vers af Fornaldarsagaer: Af Ǫrvar-Oddssaga IX 6 (AII, 307; BII, 325); Skald II, 174; Ǫrv 1888, 199, FSGJ 2, 342.

sources

AM 343 a 4° (343a)	80v, 7 - 80v, 8	(Ǫrv)
AM 471 4° (471)	94r - 94r	(Ǫrv)
AM 173 folx (173x)	61ra, 18 - 61ra, 25	(Ǫrv)
AM 344 b 4°x (344bx)	33r, 5 - 33r, 6	(Ǫrv)