Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 42 (Sjólfr, Lausavísur 3)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 855.
Oddr, vartu eigi á Atalsfjalli,
þá er fenloga fengit höfðum.
Vér berserki binda knáttum;
þá var af kappi konungs lið drepit.
Oddr, vartu eigi á Atalsfjalli, þá er höfðum fengit {fenloga}. Vér knáttum binda berserki; þá var lið konungs drepit af kappi.
‘Oddr, you were not on Atalsfjall when we had obtained fen-flame [GOLD]. We bound berserks; then the king’s retinue was killed with ardour. ’
Oddr returns to his seat and his two rivals drain the horns he had offered them. They then bring two horns to Oddr and Sjólfr speaks this stanza.
The incident referred to in this stanza is unknown.
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.
Oddr, vartu ei
á Atalsfjalli,
þá er fenloga
fengit höfðum.
Vér berserki
binda knáttum;
þá var af kappi
konungs lið drepit.
Oddr uartu ei a atals fialli · þa er fen loga feingit ho᷎fðum · ver bers | erki binnda knattum · þa var af kappi konungs lið drepit ·
(HA)
Oddr, vartu eigi
á Atalsfjalli,
þá er fenloga
fengit höfðum.
Vér bes-serki
brytja †knadumi†;
þá var af †kꜹpumm†
konungs sonr drepinn.
Oddr, vartu eigi
á á †atans†fjalli,
þá er fenloga
fengit höfðum.
Vér bes-serki
binda gerðum;
þá var af kappi
konungs lið drepit.
Oddr, vartu eigi
á †atans†fjalli,
þá er fen†lo᷎gu†
fengit höfðum.
Vér berserki
binda knáttum;
þá var af kappi
konungs lið drepit.
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