Note to ǪrvOdd Ævdr 61VIII (Ǫrv 131)
[All]: There are a number of references to Oddr’s encounters with his greatest enemy, Ǫgmundr Eyþjófr’s killer, in the stanzas associated with the various versions of Ǫrv. They include Ǫgmundr Lv 1-3 (Ǫrv 31-3), three stanzas only in the younger mss; ǪrvOdd Lv 16-17 (Ǫrv 49-50), within Oddr’s mannjafnaðr; and ǪrvOdd Ævdr 44 (Ǫrv 114). While the younger mss expand and deepen Ǫgmundr’s role as a villain with demonic overtones in the saga (Arnold 2010), the extant stanzas, not all of which are in the younger mss alone, demonstrate that the Ǫgmundr narrative was potentially available for further development in the older mss.
References
- Bibliography
- Arnold, Martin and Alison Finlay, eds. 2010. Making History: Essays on the fornaldarsögur. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Internal references
- 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)
- Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 114 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Ævidrápa 44)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 922.
- Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 31 (Ǫgmundr Eyþjófsbani, Lausavísur 1)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 844.
- Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 49 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Lausavísur 16)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 862.