Note to ǪrvOdd Ævdr 52VIII (Ǫrv 122)
[All]: The circumstances underlying this stanza are only explicit in 7’s version of the prose saga (Ǫrv 1888, 117): Eptir þat siglir Oddr út til Jórsalalands, ok þá fekk hann storm svá mikinn ok grunnsævi, at þar braut skip hans ǫll. Þar týnduz ok menn hans allir, svá at einn komz hann á land með því móti, at hann rak með skipflaki nǫkkuru til lands ‘After that [i.e. his baptism by an abbot in Sicily] Oddr sails out to Palestine, and there he encountered such a great storm as well as shallow water, that all his ships were wrecked there. There all his men were also lost, so that he came ashore alone by drifting towards land with some flotsam’. The other mss do not mention a storm at sea, and state that Oddr travelled to the River Jordan after his meeting with Christians in Aquitaine. Thus the events referred to in this stanza actually follow the events mentioned in Ævdr 53 (Ǫrv 123). In 7, but not in the younger mss, Ævdr 53 precedes Ævdr 52.
References
- Bibliography
- Ǫrv 1888 = Boer, R. C., ed. 1888. Ǫrvar-Odds saga. Leiden: Brill.
- Internal references
- Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 122 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Ævidrápa 52)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 928.
- Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 123 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Ævidrápa 53)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 930.