ǪrvOdd Ævdr 31VIII (Ǫrv 101)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 101 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Ævidrápa 31)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 912.
text and translation
Höfðu jarls liðar útnes hroðit,
rógþings vanir sem refar hundum.
Unnum vit Hjálmarr, er hinig fórum,
eldi ok usla eytt langskipum.
Liðar jarls, vanir {rógþings} sem refar hundum, höfðu hroðit útnes. Vit Hjálmarr unnum eytt langskipum eldi ok usla, er fórum hinig.
‘The jarl’s troops accustomed to the strife-assembly [BATTLE] like foxes to dogs, had cleared the outlying headland. Hjálmarr and I destroyed the longships with fire and embers when we got there. ’
notes and context
The relationship of this stanza to events reported in the prose saga is rather tenuous, but it probably concerns a passage (Ǫrv 1888, 66-7) in which Oddr and Hjálmarr and their men take on a group of berserks in Selund (ModDan. Sjælland, ModEngl. Zealand). Oddr becomes separated from Hjálmarr when he pursues the berserks on land, while Hjálmarr clears their ship.
readings
- [1] liðar: niðar 173ˣ
- [3] vanir: vinir 471
- [4] hundum: so 173ˣ, húðum 343a, hurðum 471
- [5] Unnum: unnu 471
- [6] hinig: hingat 471
- [6] fórum: so 471, fór 343a, 173ˣ
- [7] usla: so 471, ‘husla’ 343a, ‘orla’ 173ˣ
- [8] eytt: við 173ˣ
- [8] langskipum: so 471, 173ˣ, skipum 343a
sources
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.
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AM 343 a 4° (343a) — 80v/44 - 81r/1
imagesHöfðu jarls liðar
útnes hroðit,
rógþings vanir
sem refar húðum.
Unnum vit Hjálmarr,
er hinig fór,
eldi ok †husla†
eytt skipum.Hau | fdu jalls lidar · vt nes hrodit · ʀog þings vaner · sem ʀefar hvdvm · unnum uit hialmar || er hinneg for elldi ok husla eytt skipum ·
(HA)
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AM 471 4° (471) — 95r - 95r
Höfðu jarls liðar
images
útnes hroðit,
rógþings vinir
sem refar hurðum.
unnu vit Hjálmarr,
er hingat fórum,
eldi ok usla
eytt langskipum. -
AM 173 folx (173x) — 62va/25 - 62vb/1
Höfðu jarls niðar
images
útnes hroðit,
rógþings vanir
sem refar hundum.
Unnum vit Hjálmarr,
er hinig fór,
eldi ok †orla†
við langskipum. -
AM 344 b 4°x (344bx) — 33v/16 - 33v/17
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