Anon (OStór) 1VIII (OStór 1)
Peter Jorgensen (ed.) 2017, ‘Orms þáttr Stórólfssonar 1 (Anonymous Lausavísur, Lausavísa from Orms þáttr Stórólfssonar 1)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 604.
Þó ‘Even though’
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þó (adv.): though
at ‘’
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4. at (conj.): that
þú ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
látir ‘let’
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láta (verb): let, have sth done
yfir ‘over’
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yfir (prep.): over
lögu ‘seas’
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lǫgr (noun m.; °lagar, dat. legi): sea
[2] lögu breiða: lög breiðan 554h βˣ
breiða ‘the broad’
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breiðr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): broad, wide
[2] lögu breiða: lög breiðan 554h βˣ
byr ‘the wind’
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byrr (noun m.; °-jar/-s; -ir, acc. -i/-u(SigrVal 188¹³)): favourable wind < byrhestr (noun m.): [wind-horse]
kennings
byrhest‘the wind-horse ’
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the wind-horse → SHIP
hest ‘horse’
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hestr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): horse, stallion < byrhestr (noun m.): [wind-horse]
kennings
byrhest‘the wind-horse ’
= SHIP
the wind-horse → SHIP
renna ‘run’
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2. renna (verb): run (strong)
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
beriz ‘roam’
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3. bera (verb; °berr; bar, báru; borinn): bear, carry
[4] beriz: ‘bere ad’ 554h βˣ
víða ‘afar’
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1. víða (adv.): widely
nær ‘at hand’
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nær (adv.): near, almost; when
notes
[5] þat mun liggja nær ‘it [the fate] will be at hand’: Lit. ‘it will lie close’.
mun ‘it [the fate]’
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munu (verb): will, must
notes
[5] þat mun liggja nær ‘it [the fate] will be at hand’: Lit. ‘it will lie close’.
þat ‘’
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[5] þat mun liggja nær ‘it [the fate] will be at hand’: Lit. ‘it will lie close’.
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[5] þat mun liggja nær ‘it [the fate] will be at hand’: Lit. ‘it will lie close’.
norðr ‘in the north’
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2. norðr (adv.): north
notes
[6] norðr fyrir Mæri ‘in the north off the coast of Møre’: Faulkes (2011b, 91) notes that the geographical location of the islands where Ásbjǫrn is to die is somewhat vague, both in the stanza and the prose of OStór. In the prose the sibyl threatens him with death á Norðmæri ‘in Nordmøre’, and l. 6 may refer to this district, in contrast with Sunnmærr (Sunnmøre), the more southerly of the two Møre districts.
fyrir ‘off the coast’
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fyrir (prep.): for, before, because of
notes
[6] norðr fyrir Mæri ‘in the north off the coast of Møre’: Faulkes (2011b, 91) notes that the geographical location of the islands where Ásbjǫrn is to die is somewhat vague, both in the stanza and the prose of OStór. In the prose the sibyl threatens him with death á Norðmæri ‘in Nordmøre’, and l. 6 may refer to this district, in contrast with Sunnmærr (Sunnmøre), the more southerly of the two Møre districts.
Mæri ‘of Møre’
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Mœri (noun f.): [møre]
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[6] norðr fyrir Mæri ‘in the north off the coast of Møre’: Faulkes (2011b, 91) notes that the geographical location of the islands where Ásbjǫrn is to die is somewhat vague, both in the stanza and the prose of OStór. In the prose the sibyl threatens him with death á Norðmæri ‘in Nordmøre’, and l. 6 may refer to this district, in contrast with Sunnmærr (Sunnmøre), the more southerly of the two Møre districts.
bana ‘your death’
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bani (noun m.; °-a; -ar): death, killer
hljótir ‘will meet’
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hljóta (verb): alot, gain
bezt ‘it is best’
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betri (adj. comp.; °superl. beztr/baztr; pos. góðr adj.): better, best
at ‘’
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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)
þegja ‘silent’
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þegja (verb): be silent
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On a farm in Denmark, a sibyl utters this prophecy, that young Ásbjǫrn Virfilsson is destined to die in the north, off the coast of Møre (ON Mærr) in Norway.
This stanza may echo Heiðr Lv 2/1-4 (Ǫrv 2): Ferr þú eigi svá | fjörðu breiða | né líðr yfir | langa vága … ‘You will never travel thus over broad firths or sail across long bays …’. The import of the stanza is that, however far Ormr travels, he will not avoid his destiny back in Norway.
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