Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 132 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Ævidrápa 62)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 938.
Fleiri hefir mína fóstbræðr drepit,
Garðar ok Sírni; gekk skegg af flagði.
Var hann engum líkr at yfirliti,
ok kallaðr síðan Kvillánus blesi.
Hefir drepit fleiri fóstbræðr mína, Garðar ok Sírni; skegg gekk af flagði. Hann var engum líkr at yfirliti, ok kallaðr síðan Kvillánus blesi.
‘He has killed more of my foster-brothers, Garðarr and Sírnir; the beard left the ogre. He was like no one in appearance, and was afterwards called Kvillánus blesi (‘Blaze’). ’
Text is based on reconstruction from the base text and variant apparatus and may contain alternative spellings and other normalisations not visible in the manuscript text. Transcriptions may not have been checked and should not be cited.
ok fleiri hafi mína
fóstbræðr drepit,
Sírni ok Garðar ;
gekk skegg af flagði.
var hann þá at engum líkr
at yfirliti,
ok kallaðr síðan
Kvillánus blesi.
ok fleiri hafi mina fostbrædr drepit sirni | ok gardar · geck skegg af flagdi · uar hann þa at aungum likur at yfir liti · ok kalladr || sidan kuillanus blesi ·
(HA)
Fleiri hefir mína
fóstbræðr drepit,
Garðar ok Sírni;
gekk skegg af flagði.
Var hann engum líkr
at yfirliti,
ok kallaðr síðan
Kvillánus blesi.
Fleiri hefir mína
fóstbræðr drepit,
Sírni ok Garðar ;
gekk skeggi af .
var hann þá flagði engum líkr
at yfirliti,
ok kallaðr síðan
Kvillánus blesi.
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