[1] þann ‘him’: Lit. ‘that one’, i.e. Oddr’s son Vignir, mentioned but not named in the previous stanza. After guiding his father northwards to the Greenland Sea to find Ǫgmundr, Vignir, still only a boy of ten, but already with prodigious strength, is killed by Ǫgmundr who savagely bites through his windpipe (Ǫrv 1888, 133). This is the act of a troll (Ármann Jakobsson 2011, 42); cf. Egill Lv 35/7-8V (Eg 64), where the same act is attributed to Egill Skallagrímsson.
References
- Bibliography
- Ǫrv 1888 = Boer, R. C., ed. 1888. Ǫrvar-Odds saga. Leiden: Brill.
- Ármann Jakobsson. 2011. ‘Beast and Man: Realism and the Occult in Egils saga’. SS 83, 29-44.
- Internal references
- Not published: do not cite (EgillV)
- Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2022, ‘Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar 64 (Egill Skallagrímsson, Lausavísur 35)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross, Kari Ellen Gade and Tarrin Wills (eds), Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 5. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 279.