[1-2]: Exactly the same two lines, with the exception of the pers. n. Hjálmarr, occur in ǪrvOdd Lv 5 (Ǫrv 13), the opening stanza of Hjálmarr’s death-song, in which Ǫrvar-Oddr comments on how pale and near to death his wounded companion looks.
References
- Internal references
- Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 13 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Lausavísur 5)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 826.