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ǪrvOdd Lv 30VIII (Ǫrv 67)

Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 67 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Lausavísur 30)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 882.

Ǫrvar-OddrLausavísur
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text and translation

Efldu mik örvar         ok Jólfs smíði,
stórgör skeyti         ok stinnr bogi,
ok þat it fimta,         er þú fregna skalt,
at ek við ásu         aldri þýddumk.

Örvar ok smíði Jólfs efldu mik, stórgör skeyti ok stinnr bogi, ok þat it fimta, er þú skalt fregna, at ek þýddumk aldri við ásu.
 
‘The arrows and Jólfr’s handiwork aided me, the huge shafts and the strong bow, and the fifth thing which you must hear of, that I never submitted to the gods.

notes and context

Oddr replies to Gyðja’s questions in the previous stanza.

Ms. 471 is almost illegible in several places for this stanza and the next two (Ǫrv 68 and 69) and some of its readings are uncertain. — [5-8]: As with many of the other stanzas in this dialogue, and the Bjálkaland episode as a whole, especially in the versions younger than 7, Oddr is made out to be strongly opposed to Old Norse paganism. Earlier in the saga (Ǫrv 1888, 9), Oddr has professed himself opposed to pagan sacrifice (blót), preferring to rely on his own powers.

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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 VIII 9: AII, 305, BII, 323-4, Skald II, 173; Ǫrv 1888, 182, FSGJ 2, 330-1; Edd. Min. 75.

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