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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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ǪrvOdd Lv 7VIII (Ǫrv 37)

Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 37 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Lausavísur 7)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 850.

Ǫrvar-OddrLausavísur
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text and translation

Þú látt, Sjólfr,         soðgólfi á,
dáða vanr         ok dýrs hugar,
en ek út         með Akvitánum
fjóra menn         fjörvi næmðak.

Sjólfr, þú látt á soðgólfi, vanr dáða ok dýrs hugar, en ek næmðak fjóra menn fjörvi út með Akvitánum.
 
‘Sjólfr, you lay on the kitchen floor, lacking in achievements and splendid mettle, but I deprived four men of life out among the people of Aquitaine.

notes and context

A standard insult, suggesting that Sjólfr was both lazy (or drunk) and engaged in menial kitchen tasks while Oddr was achieving renown as an active warrior on foreign adventures. For a similar contrast between kitchen activities and martial prowess see Án 4/5-8 and Note to [All]. The metre of this stanza is kviðuháttr, with l. 6 in málaháttr.

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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.

editions and texts

Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XIII], E. 10. Vers af Fornaldarsagaer: Af Ǫrvar-Oddssaga VII 4: AII, 298, BII, 317, Skald II, 169; Ǫrv 1888, 160, Ǫrv 1892, 79, FSGJ 2, 312; Edd. Min. 66.

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