Heiðr Lv 1VIII (Ǫrv 1)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 1 (Heiðr, Lausavísur 1)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 810.
Ægðu ‘threaten’
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œgja (verb): terrify
eigi ‘Do not’
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3. eigi (adv.): not
mér ‘me’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
Oddr ‘Oddr’
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Oddr (noun m.)
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[2] Oddr á Jaðri ‘Oddr from Jæren’: Jæren, the most southerly part of the west coast of Norway, was the home of Oddr’s foster-father, Ingjaldr.
á ‘from’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
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[2] Oddr á Jaðri ‘Oddr from Jæren’: Jæren, the most southerly part of the west coast of Norway, was the home of Oddr’s foster-father, Ingjaldr.
Jaðri ‘Jæren’
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2. Jaðarr (noun m.): Jæren
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[2] Oddr á Jaðri ‘Oddr from Jæren’: Jæren, the most southerly part of the west coast of Norway, was the home of Oddr’s foster-father, Ingjaldr.
eldi ‘with a fire’
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eldi (noun n.): fire < eldiskíða (noun f.)
[3] eldi‑: elda 343a, 173ˣ
skíðu ‘stick’
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skíða (noun f.; °-u; -ur): [planks] < eldiskíða (noun f.)
þótt ‘though we [I]’
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þótt (conj.): although
ýmist ‘of this and that’
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ýmiss (adj.): various, alternate
geipum ‘babble’
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geip (noun n.): °vrøvl, ævl, sludder
Saga ‘tale’
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1. saga (noun f.; °*-u; *-ur): story, saga
mun ‘will’
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munu (verb): will, must
sannaz ‘be proven true’
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2. sanna (verb): prove
er ‘’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
segir ‘tells’
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segja (verb): say, tell
völva ‘the prophetess’
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vǫlva (noun f.; °vǫlu/vǫlvu; vǫlur/vǫlvur): seeress
öll ‘destinies’
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allr (adj.): all
veit ‘foretells’
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1. vita (verb): know
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[7-8] hon veit fyrir ‘she foretells’: The collocation of the verb vita ‘know’ with adv. fyrir ‘before(hand)’ gives the sense ‘foretell, prophesy’.
hon ‘she’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
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[7-8] hon veit fyrir ‘she foretells’: The collocation of the verb vita ‘know’ with adv. fyrir ‘before(hand)’ gives the sense ‘foretell, prophesy’.
ørlög ‘all’
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ørlag (noun n.): (pl.) primal law, fate
fyrir ‘’
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fyrir (prep.): for, before, because of
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[7-8] hon veit fyrir ‘she foretells’: The collocation of the verb vita ‘know’ with adv. fyrir ‘before(hand)’ gives the sense ‘foretell, prophesy’.
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