ǪrvOdd Ævdr 30VIII (Ǫrv 100)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 100 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Ævidrápa 30)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 911.
Várum ‘We were’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
allir ‘all’
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allr (adj.): all
vestr ‘in the west’
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2. vestr (adv.): west, in the west
notes
[2] vestr með Skolla ‘in the west with Skolli’: Exactly the same line is at Ǫrv 44/6. According to the prose saga Oddr and Hjálmarr encounter Skolli off the coast of Northumberland, where he had sixty ships. Although Oddr at first intends to fight Skolli, he ends up making common cause with him in the latter’s bid to restore his rule of a kingdom which another English king had stolen from him. On the name Skolli see Ǫrv 44, Note to l. 6.
með ‘with’
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með (prep.): with
notes
[2] vestr með Skolla ‘in the west with Skolli’: Exactly the same line is at Ǫrv 44/6. According to the prose saga Oddr and Hjálmarr encounter Skolli off the coast of Northumberland, where he had sixty ships. Although Oddr at first intends to fight Skolli, he ends up making common cause with him in the latter’s bid to restore his rule of a kingdom which another English king had stolen from him. On the name Skolli see Ǫrv 44, Note to l. 6.
Skolla ‘Skolli’
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skolli (noun m.; °-a): fox, trickery
notes
[2] vestr með Skolla ‘in the west with Skolli’: Exactly the same line is at Ǫrv 44/6. According to the prose saga Oddr and Hjálmarr encounter Skolli off the coast of Northumberland, where he had sixty ships. Although Oddr at first intends to fight Skolli, he ends up making common cause with him in the latter’s bid to restore his rule of a kingdom which another English king had stolen from him. On the name Skolli see Ǫrv 44, Note to l. 6.
þar ‘there’
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þar (adv.): there
notes
[3-4]: These two lines probably refer to the king of the English, named as Játmundr in some mss, who has usurped Skolli’s kingdom and killed his father and many of his kinsmen. The second helmingr then refers to the battle, said to have taken place in the south of the country, in which Oddr’s and Skolli’s men fight against Játmundr, kill him, and gain the kingdom.
at ‘over’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
notes
[3-4]: These two lines probably refer to the king of the English, named as Játmundr in some mss, who has usurped Skolli’s kingdom and killed his father and many of his kinsmen. The second helmingr then refers to the battle, said to have taken place in the south of the country, in which Oddr’s and Skolli’s men fight against Játmundr, kill him, and gain the kingdom.
landi ‘the land’
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land (noun n.; °-s; *-): land
notes
[3-4]: These two lines probably refer to the king of the English, named as Játmundr in some mss, who has usurped Skolli’s kingdom and killed his father and many of his kinsmen. The second helmingr then refers to the battle, said to have taken place in the south of the country, in which Oddr’s and Skolli’s men fight against Játmundr, kill him, and gain the kingdom.
sat ‘ruled’
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setja (verb): place, set, establish
notes
[3-4]: These two lines probably refer to the king of the English, named as Játmundr in some mss, who has usurped Skolli’s kingdom and killed his father and many of his kinsmen. The second helmingr then refers to the battle, said to have taken place in the south of the country, in which Oddr’s and Skolli’s men fight against Játmundr, kill him, and gain the kingdom.
lýða ‘of men’
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lýðr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -; -ir): one of the people
kennings
dróttinn lýða‘the lord of men ’
= RULER = Játmundr
the lord of men → RULER = Játmundr
notes
[3-4]: These two lines probably refer to the king of the English, named as Játmundr in some mss, who has usurped Skolli’s kingdom and killed his father and many of his kinsmen. The second helmingr then refers to the battle, said to have taken place in the south of the country, in which Oddr’s and Skolli’s men fight against Játmundr, kill him, and gain the kingdom.
dróttinn ‘the lord’
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dróttinn (noun m.; °dróttins, dat. dróttni (drottini [$1049$]); dróttnar): lord, master
kennings
dróttinn lýða‘the lord of men ’
= RULER = Játmundr
the lord of men → RULER = Játmundr
notes
[3-4]: These two lines probably refer to the king of the English, named as Játmundr in some mss, who has usurped Skolli’s kingdom and killed his father and many of his kinsmen. The second helmingr then refers to the battle, said to have taken place in the south of the country, in which Oddr’s and Skolli’s men fight against Játmundr, kill him, and gain the kingdom.
Báru ‘bore’
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3. bera (verb; °berr; bar, báru; borinn): bear, carry
bragnar ‘Warriors’
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bragnar (noun m.): men, warriors
blóðgar ‘bloody’
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blóðigr (adj.; °blóðgan/blóðugan (f. dat. sg. bloðre Gulᴵ 82³⁴)): bloody
sverðum ‘with swords’
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sverð (noun n.; °-s; -): sword
notes
[7] skornar ‘cut’: Again the mss show variation, with 471 and 173ˣ reading meiddir ‘wounded’, which must refer back to bragnar ‘warriors’ (l. 5), whereas skornar (emended from 343a’s skornir) qualifies the f. pl. undir ‘wounds’.
en ‘but’
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2. en (conj.): but, and
vér ‘we’
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vér (pron.; °gen. vár, dat./acc. oss): we, us, our
notes
[8] vér höfðum ‘we had’: Both 471 and 173ˣ read þaðan ‘from there’, so that the clause is without a verb. This reading is possible if the verb ‘had’ or ‘won’ is implied. The following stanza begins with höfðu ‘they had’, and it is possible the conjunction of two forms of the same verb in an exemplar of 471 and 173ˣ interfered with the transmission of the final word in Ǫrv 100.
sigr ‘the victory’
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sigr (noun m.; °sigrs/sigrar, dat. sigri; sigrar): victory
notes
[8] vér höfðum ‘we had’: Both 471 and 173ˣ read þaðan ‘from there’, so that the clause is without a verb. This reading is possible if the verb ‘had’ or ‘won’ is implied. The following stanza begins with höfðu ‘they had’, and it is possible the conjunction of two forms of the same verb in an exemplar of 471 and 173ˣ interfered with the transmission of the final word in Ǫrv 100.
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The substance of this stanza corresponds to the second helmingr of Ǫrv 44 and an episode in the prose saga in which Oddr and Hjálmarr encounter a viking named Skolli during an expedition to England (Ǫrv 1888, 84-7). In the saga this episode occurs after an adventure in Ireland, in which Ásmundr is killed, and after Oddr’s meeting with the Irish woman Ǫlvǫr, who makes Oddr a protective magic shirt (see Ǫrv 4 and 111).
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