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ǪrvOdd Ævdr 34^VIII (Ǫrv 104)

Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 104 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Ævidrápa 34)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 914.

Ǫrvar-Oddr Ævidrápa

Fóru ‘went’

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fara (verb; ferr, fór, fóru, farinn): go, travel

teitir ‘The cheerful’

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teitr (adj.): cheerful, glad

kennings

Teitir boðar brynþings
‘The cheerful offerers of the mailcoat-assembly ’
= WARRIORS
the mailcoat-assembly → BATTLE
The cheerful offerers of the BATTLE → WARRIORS

tveggja ‘on their two’

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tveir (num. cardinal): two

vegna ‘ways’

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1. vegr (noun m.; °-s/-ar, dat. -i/-; -ar/-ir, gen. -a/-na, acc. -a/-i/-u): way, path, side

bryn ‘of the mailcoat’

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1. brynja (noun f.; °-u (dat. brynnoni Gibb 38⁹); -ur): mailcoat < brynþing (noun n.): byrnie-assembly

kennings

Teitir boðar brynþings
‘The cheerful offerers of the mailcoat-assembly ’
= WARRIORS
the mailcoat-assembly → BATTLE
The cheerful offerers of the BATTLE → WARRIORS

bryn ‘of the mailcoat’

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1. brynja (noun f.; °-u (dat. brynnoni Gibb 38⁹); -ur): mailcoat < brynþing (noun n.): byrnie-assembly

kennings

Teitir boðar brynþings
‘The cheerful offerers of the mailcoat-assembly ’
= WARRIORS
the mailcoat-assembly → BATTLE
The cheerful offerers of the BATTLE → WARRIORS

þings ‘assembly’

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þing (noun n.; °-s; -): meeting, assembly < brynþing (noun n.): byrnie-assembly

kennings

Teitir boðar brynþings
‘The cheerful offerers of the mailcoat-assembly ’
= WARRIORS
the mailcoat-assembly → BATTLE
The cheerful offerers of the BATTLE → WARRIORS

þings ‘assembly’

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þing (noun n.; °-s; -): meeting, assembly < brynþing (noun n.): byrnie-assembly

kennings

Teitir boðar brynþings
‘The cheerful offerers of the mailcoat-assembly ’
= WARRIORS
the mailcoat-assembly → BATTLE
The cheerful offerers of the BATTLE → WARRIORS

boðar ‘offerers’

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boði (noun m.; °-a; -ar): messenger, breaker

kennings

Teitir boðar brynþings
‘The cheerful offerers of the mailcoat-assembly ’
= WARRIORS
the mailcoat-assembly → BATTLE
The cheerful offerers of the BATTLE → WARRIORS

þegar ‘once they got’

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þegar (adv.): at once, then

byrir ‘winds’

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byrr (noun m.; °-jar/-s; -ir, acc. -i/-u(SigrVal 188¹³)): favourable wind

fenguz ‘favourable’

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2. fá (verb; °fǽr; fekk, fengu; fenginn): get, receive

Sigldum ‘we sailed’

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2. sigla (verb): sail

síðan ‘Then’

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síðan (adv.): later, then

[5] síðan: þegar 173ˣ

Svíþjóðar ‘Sweden’

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Svíþjóð (noun f.): [Sweden]

notes

[6] til Svíþjóðar ‘to Sweden’: Not coterminous with modern Sweden, but the eastern territory of the Svíar, centred around Lake Mälaren, as contrasted with the western Swedish territory of Götaland.

til ‘to’

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til (prep.): to

notes

[6] til Svíþjóðar ‘to Sweden’: Not coterminous with modern Sweden, but the eastern territory of the Svíar, centred around Lake Mälaren, as contrasted with the western Swedish territory of Götaland.

sóttum ‘we visited’

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sœkja (verb): seek, attack

[7] sóttum: ‘socktum’ 173ˣ

Yngva ‘Yngvi’

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Yngvi (noun m.): Yngvi, prince

[7] Yngva: so 471, ‘jngua’ 343a, Inga konung 173ˣ

notes

[7] Yngva ‘Yngvi’: See Note to [All] above. Here Yngvi appears as a pers. n. for a king of the Svíar, though most frequently in skaldic poetry the word functions as a common noun for ‘king, ruler’. For a discussion of the many senses of this name and its connection to the dynasty of the Ynglingar and the god Freyr, see Introduction to Þjóð Yt^I and Note to Yt 11/8^I, where Yngvi also appears as a pers. n. There it is suggested that Yngvi might be a short form of Ingjaldr, which is given as the Swedish king’s name in the oldest ms. (7) of Ǫrv.

til ‘in’

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til (prep.): to

notes

[8] til Uppsala ‘in Uppsala’: Lit. ‘to Uppsala’. On this p. n., see Note to Ǫrv 18/8.

Uppsala ‘Uppsala’

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Uppsalir (noun m.): [Uppsala]

notes

[8] til Uppsala ‘in Uppsala’: Lit. ‘to Uppsala’. On this p. n., see Note to Ǫrv 18/8.

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This stanza continues to follow the narrative line of the prose texts, though there is a discrepancy between the mss in the name of the Swedish king, who is Ingjaldr in 7 (Ǫrv 1888, 69) and Hlǫðver in 344a (Ǫrv 1888, 68), while the poetic texts call him Yngvi (or Ingvi or Ingi). His name is also given as Yngvi in the Hb and R715ˣ prose texts of Heiðr.

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