ǪrvOdd Ævdr 39VIII (Ǫrv 109)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 109 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Ævidrápa 39)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 918.
text and translation
Sá ek um síðir, hvar saman fóru
karlar röskvir ok konur þeira.
Þá lét ek fjóra frændr Ölvarar,
eggleiks hvata, öndu týna.
Ek sá um síðir, hvar röskvir karlar ok konur þeira fóru saman. Þá lét ek fjóra frændr Ölvarar, hvata {eggleiks}, týna öndu.
‘I saw at last where brave men and their women were moving together. Then I caused four of Ǫlvǫr’s kinsmen, keen in the play of swords [BATTLE], to lose their lives. ’
notes and context
After Ásmundr has been killed, Oddr finds a clearing in a wood where a group of men and women are gathered. He shoots one particularly prominent man and three others with his arrows, Gusisnautar ‘Gusir’s gifts’, until the Irish flee into the forest. He does not discover that these men are Ǫlvǫr’s father and brothers until he has met her slightly later in the narrative.
readings
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) — 81r/11 - 81r/13
imagesSá ek um síðir,
hvar saman kómu
karlar röskvir
ok konur þeira.
Þá lét ek †iiij†
frændr Ölvarar,
eggleiks hvata,
öndu týna.Sa ec vm sider | huar saman komo · kallar ʀauskuir ok konur þeira · þar liet ec .iiij. frœndr auluarar · eggleiks huata | aundu tyna ·
(HA)
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AM 471 4° (471) — 95r - 95r
Sá ek um síðir,
images
hvar saman fóru
karlar röskvir
ok konur þeira.
Þá lét ek fjóra
frændr Ölvarar,
eggleiks hvata,
öndu týna. -
AM 173 folx (173x) — 63ra/26 - 63ra/33
Sá ek um síðir,
images
hvar saman fóru
karlar röskvir
ok konr þeira.
Þá lét ek fjóra
frændr Ölvarar,
eggleiks hvata,
öndu týna. -
AM 344 b 4°x (344bx) — 33v/28 - 33v/30
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