Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 66 (Gyðja, Lausavísur 5)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 881.
Hvat efldi þik austan hingat
feiknafullan ok fláráðan?
Muntu hvarvetna herja vilja,
er þú Álfi máttir aldrspell gera.
Hvat efldi þik austan hingat, feiknafullan ok fláráðan? Muntu vilja herja hvarvetna, er þú máttir gera Álfi aldrspell.
‘What aided you [coming] here from the east, one full of portents and deceits? You must want to harry everywhere, since you were able to cause life-damage to Álfr. ’
Gyðja continues her questioning of Oddr.
Lines 1-4 of this stanza are also in ms. 7 as the final part (ll. 9-12) of Gyðja Lv 2 (Ǫrv 61). See Note to [All] to that stanza.
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.
Hvat efldi þik
austan þaðan
feiknafullan
ok fláráðan?
muntu nú hvarvetna
herja vilja,
er þú máttir Álfi
aldrspell gera.
Hvat efldi þik ꜹstan þadan feikna fvllan ok flaradan mvnntv nv hvarvettna | heria vilia · er þv mattir alfi alldr spell giora ·
(HA)
eða hverr eggiaði þik
austan hingat
†fręknan fella flaraðan†
?
Muntu hvarvetna
herja vilja,
er þú Álfi máttir
aldrspell gera.
hverir †elfdu† þik
austan hingat
fullan ok fláráðan ok frækinn harðla
?
Muntu hvarvetna
herja vilja,
er þér Álfi máttuð
aldrsspell gera.
hverir efldi þik
austan hingat
†fullan illsku frænda […]†
?
Muntu hvarvetna
herja vilja,
er Álfi mátti
aldrspell gera.
hverr efldi þik
austan hingat
fúlan ok fláráðan af flestu illu
?
Muntu hvarvetna
herja vilja,
er þú Álfi máttuð
aldrspell gera.
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