Note to ǪrvOdd Lv 1VIII (Ǫrv 7)
[2] frá Munarvágum ‘from Munarvágar’: According to the prose of Ǫrv immediately preceding the Samsø stanzas (Ǫrv 1888, 94), this is the name of some inlets or creeks on Samsø where Oddr and Hjálmarr found anchorage for their ships while they repaired them. The name is also recorded in the sg. in the prose of Heiðr (see Heiðr 1924, 9, 10, 96, 104, 105; Heiðr 1960, 5 and n. a); for variant spellings in Una- or Unnar- cf. HHund I 31/2. That the Munar- form is correct is confirmed by alliteration (cf. Heiðr 1924, lxviii). It is also found in Herv Lv 10/8 (Heiðr 27). The first element of the name possibly derives from munr ‘desire, love’.
References
- Bibliography
- Heiðr 1924 = Jón Helgason, ed. 1924. Heiðreks saga. Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks konungs. SUGNL 48. Copenhagen: Jørgensen.
- Ǫrv 1888 = Boer, R. C., ed. 1888. Ǫrvar-Odds saga. Leiden: Brill.
- Heiðr 1960 = Tolkien, Christopher, ed. and trans. 1960. Saga Heiðreks konungs ins vitra / The Saga of King Heidrek the Wise. Nelson Icelandic Texts. London etc.: Nelson.
- Internal references
- 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 367. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=23> (accessed 27 April 2024)
- 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Ǫrvar-Odds saga’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 804. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=35> (accessed 27 April 2024)
- Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 74 (Gestumblindi, Heiðreks gátur 27)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 441.
- Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 27 (Hervǫr, Lausavísur 10)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 388.