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Ótt Óldr 3III

Matthew Townend (ed.) 2017, ‘Óttarr svarti, Óláfsdrápa sœnska 3’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 337.

Óttarr svartiÓláfsdrápa sœnska
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text and translation

Braut, en breki þaut,
borð — óx viðar morð —
— meðr fengu mikit veðr —
mjó fyr ofan sjó.

Braut mjó borð fyr ofan sjó, en breki þaut; {morð viðar} óx; meðr fengu mikit veðr.
 
‘The slender planks were broken above the sea, and the breaker resounded; the destruction of the tree [WIND] increased; men got severe weather.

notes and context

This stanza is quoted in Skm to illustrate the use of breki as one of many heiti for ‘sea’.

The stanza describes a sea-voyage in stormy weather, but saga accounts shed no light on its occurrence or significance in Óláfr’s career.

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Text is based on reconstruction from the base text and variant apparatus and may contain alternative spellings and other normalisations not visible in the manuscript text. Transcriptions may not have been checked and should not be cited.

editions and texts

Skj: Óttarr svarti, 1. Óláfsdrápa sœnska 5: AI, 289, BI, 267, Skald I, 137, NN §§620, 720; SnE 1848-87, I, 504-5, II, 452, 535-6, III, 105, SnE 1931, 177, SnE 1998, I, 96.

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