ǪrvOdd Ævdr 37VIII (Ǫrv 107)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 107 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Ævidrápa 37)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 916.
Létum vestr þaðan vandar fáka
Írlands á vit öldur kanna.
Höfðu þeira, er þagat kómum,
drengir ok drósir drifit ór húsum.
Létum {fáka vandar} kanna öldur vestr þaðan á vit Írlands. Drengir ok drósir þeira höfðu drifit ór húsum, er kómum þagat.
We made {the horses of the mast} [SHIPS] explore the waves west from there on the way to Ireland. Their men and women had fled from the houses when we arrived there.
Mss: 343a(81r), 471(95r), 173ˣ(63ra) (Ǫrv)
Readings: [1] þaðan: so 471, 173ˣ, ‘þadan’ with d changed from g in scribal hand 343a [2] vandar: vinda 173ˣ [3] á vit: óvit 173ˣ [4] öldur: eldr 173ˣ; kanna: kenna 343a, koma 471, kenna or brenna 173ˣ [5] þeira: so 471, þá 343a, þaðra 173ˣ [6] þagat: so 471, þangat 343a, 173ˣ
Editions: Skj AII, 312, Skj BII, 331-2, Skald II, 177-8, NN §2606; Ǫrv 1888, 203, FSGJ 2, 351.
Notes: [All]: The prose saga tells that Oddr and his companions ravage, burn and kill Irish people when they arrive in Ireland (Ǫrv 1888, 70-1). — [4] kanna ‘explore’: The emendation is necessary to make good sense of the clause (so NN §2606); kenna means ‘know’, while the other ms. readings, koma ‘come’ and (possibly) brenna ‘burn’, are inappropriate in context. — [6] þagat ‘there’: Lit. ‘thither, to there’. With Skj B and Skald, 471’s variant of the adv. is preferred over the other mss’ þangat to give a regular Type C2-line and avoid hypermetricality.
References
- Bibliography
- Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- FSGJ = Guðni Jónsson, ed. 1954. Fornaldar sögur norðurlanda. 4 vols. [Reykjavík]: Íslendingasagnaútgáfan.
- Ǫrv 1888 = Boer, R. C., ed. 1888. Ǫrvar-Odds saga. Leiden: Brill.
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