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Note to ǪrvOdd Lv 30VIII (Ǫrv 67)

[1-2] örvar ok smíði Jólfs ‘the arrows and Jólfr’s handiwork’: Presumably Oddr refers here both to the Gusisnautar, the three magical arrows which his ancestor Ketill hœngr obtained from the Saami king Gusir and which, according to Ǫrv, Oddr’s father Grímr gave to him (Ǫrv 1888, 24-5), and to the three stone arrows that he received from the old man Jólfr not long before the Bjálkaland expedition and used to lay Álfr low (or to kill Gyða, according to the version of 7).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Ǫrv 1888 = Boer, R. C., ed. 1888. Ǫrvar-Odds saga. Leiden: Brill.
  3. Internal references
  4. 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 19 April 2024)
  5. Not published: do not cite (KethVIII)

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