ǪrvOdd Lv 3VIII (Ǫrv 10)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 10 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Lausavísur 3)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 822.
Því ‘to that’
[1] Því munk orði: so R715ˣ, því mun orði 2845, ‘Ansa mun eg’ corrected from ‘Ern suo en ek þiat einu’ in a later hand, with all but the last word crossed through 344a
munk ‘I will’
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munu (verb): will, must
[1] Því munk orði: so R715ˣ, því mun orði 2845, ‘Ansa mun eg’ corrected from ‘Ern suo en ek þiat einu’ in a later hand, with all but the last word crossed through 344a
orði ‘speech’
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orð (noun n.; °-s; -): word
[1] Því munk orði: so R715ˣ, því mun orði 2845, ‘Ansa mun eg’ corrected from ‘Ern suo en ek þiat einu’ in a later hand, with all but the last word crossed through 344a
andsvör ‘answer’
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andsvar (noun n.; °-s; *-): answer, defence
[2] andsvör veita: ‘ordi hnekia’ or ‘hnekti’ 344a
veita ‘give’
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2. veita (verb): grant, give
[2] andsvör veita: ‘ordi hnekia’ or ‘hnekti’ 344a
þeir ‘they’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
í ‘this’
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í (prep.): in, into
aptan ‘evening’
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aptann (noun m.; °aftans, dat. aftni; aftnar): evening
gista ‘have lodging’
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gista (verb): visit, stay the night
[4] gista: so R715ˣ, 344a, ‘gg’ 2845
tólf ‘the twelve’
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tolf (num. cardinal): twelve
berserkir ‘berserks’
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berserkr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -/-i; -ir, gen. -ja): Berserk
[5] berserkir: so R715ˣ, 344a, added in left margin in scribal hand 2845
en ‘but’
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2. en (conj.): but, and
tveir ‘two’
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tveir (num. cardinal): two
lifa ‘will live’
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lifa (verb): live
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In both Ǫrv and Heiðr this stanza is attributed to Oddr. It follows almost immediately from Ǫrv 9, and is introduced with the words Oddr segir ‘Oddr says’ (Heiðr) or Þá segir Oddr enn svá ‘Then Oddr speaks again thus’ (Ǫrv).
This stanza is a riposte or correction to Hjálmarr’s prediction in the previous stanza. Oddr asserts that the situation will be the opposite of what Hjálmarr imagines, viz. the berserks will be the ones to die (be Óðinn’s guests) and they two will survive. Hence, ll. 3-6 represent a variation on ll. 5-8 of Ǫrv 9 in both the Heiðr and Ǫrv mss. Lines 1-2 differ in the two traditions, and that of the sole Ǫrv ms. at this point, 344a, is obviously corrupt. A later hand has tried to correct it. Boer (Ǫrv 1888, 1892) read En ek þvíat einu | orþi hnekti (hnektak Ǫrv 1892), translating with a prose order En ek hnekta því eino orðe ‘Aber ich wies solches nur mit diesem anspruch zurück’ (Ǫrv 1892, 103), ‘But I dismissed this with a single claim’. See further, for this emended text, Boer’s discussion (1892b, 124 and n. 1). Edd. Min. has a similar text in square brackets based on 344a. Both Skj (A and B) and Skald follow the Heiðr text of this stanza, as does the present edn.
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