[3] Garðar ok Sírni ‘Garðarr and Sírnir’: As Kock points out (NN §2610), ms. 471 has the better order of these two names, as alliteration in ll. 3-4 falls on <g>. In the younger mss, these two men are introduced to Oddr by a Þórr-doppelgänger named Rauð-Grani ‘Red-Grani’ as his foster-brothers (Ǫrv 1888, 125-6), and they assist Oddr in dealing with Ǫgmundr Eyþjófsbani, but are ultimately killed by him. Sírnir is also mentioned in ǪgmEyb Lv 3/3 (Ǫrv 33).
References
- Bibliography
- NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- Ǫrv 1888 = Boer, R. C., ed. 1888. Ǫrvar-Odds saga. Leiden: Brill.
- Internal references
- Not published: do not cite (ǪgmEybVIII)
- Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 33 (Ǫgmundr Eyþjófsbani, Lausavísur 3)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 846.