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.
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. ’
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.
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.
þu lat Siolfr soð golfi a daða uanr ok dyrs hugar. enn ek ut með akuitanum· iiij · menn fio᷎rvi | næmðag ·
(HA)
Þú látt, Sjólfr,
soðgólfi á,
dáða vanr
†oduarfs† hugar,
þá er ek einn út
í Akvitánja
fjóra menn
fjörvi rænta.
Þú látt, †Sio†,
í soðgólfi ,
dáða vanr
ok dýrs hugar,
en ek út
á Akvitánja
fjóra menn
fjörvi næmðak.
Þú látt, †sc†,
í soðgólfi ,
dáða vanr
ok dýrs hugr,
en ek út
á Akvitánja
fjóra menn
fjörvi næmðak.
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