Cite as: Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 78 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Ævidrápa 8)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 894.

Varð ek at vári víss, at gørðuz brynþings boðar Bjarma at sækja. Síðan kvaddak Sigurð ok Guðmund; vilda ek með fræknum til farar ráðaz. Varð ek at vári víss, at gørðuz brynþings boðar Bjarma at sækja. Síðan kvaddak Sigurð ok Guðmund; vilda ek með fræknum til farar ráðaz. Ek varð víss at vári, at boðar brynþings gørðuz at sækja Bjarma. Síðan kvaddak Sigurð ok Guðmund; ek vilda ráðaz til farar með fræknum.

text prose order   I became aware in the spring that {the offerers {of the mailcoat-assembly}} [BATTLE > WARRIORS] were making ready to visit the Permians. Then I called on Sigurðr and Guðmundr; I wanted to be included in the expedition with the brave ones.

notes: According to the prose saga (Ǫrv 1888, 20-5), Oddr asks his brother Guðmundr, and his cousin, Sigurðr, whether he could travel with them, on hearing that they are about to set out on an expedition northwards to Bjarmaland (Permia). They initially refuse, but relent after Guðmundr has had a frightening dream in which he sees Oddr’s fetch, in the shape of a polar bear, threatening to sink their ships.

texts: ‹Ǫrv 78›

editions: Skj Anonyme digte og vers [XIII]: E. 10. Vers af Fornaldarsagaer: Af Ǫrvar-Oddssaga IX 8 (AII, 307; BII, 325-6); Skald II, 174; Ǫrv 1888, 199, FSGJ 2, 342.

sources

AM 343 a 4° (343a)	80v, 10 - 80v, 12	(Ǫrv)
AM 471 4° (471)	94r - 94r	(Ǫrv)
AM 173 folx (173x)	61rb, 2 - 61rb, 9	(Ǫrv)
AM 344 b 4°x (344bx)	33r, 8 - 33r, 10	(Ǫrv)