ǪrvOdd Ævdr 40VIII (Ǫrv 110)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 110 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Ævidrápa 40)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 918.
Réð ‘greeted’
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ráða (verb): advise, rule, interpret, decide
notes
[1-2]: Skj B emends mik ‘me’ (l. 1) to ek ‘I’, which is suffixed to the verb réð to make it 1st pers. sg. pret. (réðk) rather than 3rd pers. sg. pret., with víf ‘woman’ as subject, as here. Skj B construes: jeg talte til kvinden i vognen ‘I spoke to the woman in the waggon’. However, the mss’ unemended version as presented here (also in Ǫrv 1888, Skald, NN §2607 and FSGJ) makes better sense, partly because it foreshadows the agency of Ǫlvǫr in the second helmingr and partly because it enables a closer translation of ór vagni ‘from a waggon’ (rather than ‘in a waggon’). The change of person from sg. to pl. in ll. 3-4 (þær ‘they’ f. nom. pl.) presumably refers to Ǫlvǫr and her female companions, who are mentioned in the prose texts.
mik ‘me’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
notes
[1-2]: Skj B emends mik ‘me’ (l. 1) to ek ‘I’, which is suffixed to the verb réð to make it 1st pers. sg. pret. (réðk) rather than 3rd pers. sg. pret., with víf ‘woman’ as subject, as here. Skj B construes: jeg talte til kvinden i vognen ‘I spoke to the woman in the waggon’. However, the mss’ unemended version as presented here (also in Ǫrv 1888, Skald, NN §2607 and FSGJ) makes better sense, partly because it foreshadows the agency of Ǫlvǫr in the second helmingr and partly because it enables a closer translation of ór vagni ‘from a waggon’ (rather than ‘in a waggon’). The change of person from sg. to pl. in ll. 3-4 (þær ‘they’ f. nom. pl.) presumably refers to Ǫlvǫr and her female companions, who are mentioned in the prose texts.
ór ‘from’
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3. ór (prep.): out of
notes
[1-2]: Skj B emends mik ‘me’ (l. 1) to ek ‘I’, which is suffixed to the verb réð to make it 1st pers. sg. pret. (réðk) rather than 3rd pers. sg. pret., with víf ‘woman’ as subject, as here. Skj B construes: jeg talte til kvinden i vognen ‘I spoke to the woman in the waggon’. However, the mss’ unemended version as presented here (also in Ǫrv 1888, Skald, NN §2607 and FSGJ) makes better sense, partly because it foreshadows the agency of Ǫlvǫr in the second helmingr and partly because it enables a closer translation of ór vagni ‘from a waggon’ (rather than ‘in a waggon’). The change of person from sg. to pl. in ll. 3-4 (þær ‘they’ f. nom. pl.) presumably refers to Ǫlvǫr and her female companions, who are mentioned in the prose texts.
vagni ‘a waggon’
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vagn (noun m.; °dat. -i; -ar): wagon
notes
[1-2]: Skj B emends mik ‘me’ (l. 1) to ek ‘I’, which is suffixed to the verb réð to make it 1st pers. sg. pret. (réðk) rather than 3rd pers. sg. pret., with víf ‘woman’ as subject, as here. Skj B construes: jeg talte til kvinden i vognen ‘I spoke to the woman in the waggon’. However, the mss’ unemended version as presented here (also in Ǫrv 1888, Skald, NN §2607 and FSGJ) makes better sense, partly because it foreshadows the agency of Ǫlvǫr in the second helmingr and partly because it enables a closer translation of ór vagni ‘from a waggon’ (rather than ‘in a waggon’). The change of person from sg. to pl. in ll. 3-4 (þær ‘they’ f. nom. pl.) presumably refers to Ǫlvǫr and her female companions, who are mentioned in the prose texts.
notes
[1-2]: Skj B emends mik ‘me’ (l. 1) to ek ‘I’, which is suffixed to the verb réð to make it 1st pers. sg. pret. (réðk) rather than 3rd pers. sg. pret., with víf ‘woman’ as subject, as here. Skj B construes: jeg talte til kvinden i vognen ‘I spoke to the woman in the waggon’. However, the mss’ unemended version as presented here (also in Ǫrv 1888, Skald, NN §2607 and FSGJ) makes better sense, partly because it foreshadows the agency of Ǫlvǫr in the second helmingr and partly because it enables a closer translation of ór vagni ‘from a waggon’ (rather than ‘in a waggon’). The change of person from sg. to pl. in ll. 3-4 (þær ‘they’ f. nom. pl.) presumably refers to Ǫlvǫr and her female companions, who are mentioned in the prose texts.
at ‘’
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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)
notes
[1-2]: Skj B emends mik ‘me’ (l. 1) to ek ‘I’, which is suffixed to the verb réð to make it 1st pers. sg. pret. (réðk) rather than 3rd pers. sg. pret., with víf ‘woman’ as subject, as here. Skj B construes: jeg talte til kvinden i vognen ‘I spoke to the woman in the waggon’. However, the mss’ unemended version as presented here (also in Ǫrv 1888, Skald, NN §2607 and FSGJ) makes better sense, partly because it foreshadows the agency of Ǫlvǫr in the second helmingr and partly because it enables a closer translation of ór vagni ‘from a waggon’ (rather than ‘in a waggon’). The change of person from sg. to pl. in ll. 3-4 (þær ‘they’ f. nom. pl.) presumably refers to Ǫlvǫr and her female companions, who are mentioned in the prose texts.
kveðja ‘’
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2. kveðja (verb; kvaddi): (dd) request, address, greet
notes
[1-2]: Skj B emends mik ‘me’ (l. 1) to ek ‘I’, which is suffixed to the verb réð to make it 1st pers. sg. pret. (réðk) rather than 3rd pers. sg. pret., with víf ‘woman’ as subject, as here. Skj B construes: jeg talte til kvinden i vognen ‘I spoke to the woman in the waggon’. However, the mss’ unemended version as presented here (also in Ǫrv 1888, Skald, NN §2607 and FSGJ) makes better sense, partly because it foreshadows the agency of Ǫlvǫr in the second helmingr and partly because it enables a closer translation of ór vagni ‘from a waggon’ (rather than ‘in a waggon’). The change of person from sg. to pl. in ll. 3-4 (þær ‘they’ f. nom. pl.) presumably refers to Ǫlvǫr and her female companions, who are mentioned in the prose texts.
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
þær ‘they’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
hoddum ‘treasures’
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1. hodd (noun f.): gold, treasure
[3] hoddum: so 471, 173ˣ, ‘hauddum’ 343a
mér ‘me’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
góðum ‘fine’
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góðr (adj.): good
mik ‘me’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
snót ‘The lady’
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snót (noun f.; °; -ir): woman
koma ‘come’
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koma (verb; kem, kom/kvam, kominn): come
sumar ‘summer’
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sumar (noun n.; °-s; sumur/sumar): summer
[6] sumar it (‘sumar hit’): sumarit 471, 173ˣ
næsta ‘following’
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nærri (adj. comp.; °superl. nǽstr): near, nearer, next
léz ‘she said’
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láta (verb): let, have sth done
þá ‘then’
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2. þá (adv.): then
launum ‘rewards’
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3. laun (noun n.; °-; -): rewards
leita ‘look’
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leita (verb): seek, look for, attack
mundu ‘she would’
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munu (verb): will, must
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This stanza diverges considerably from the prose text in all its versions. In them, after killing Ǫlvǫr’s menfolk, Oddr rages through the forest, pulling up bushes by their roots in his fury, until he comes upon an underground chamber beneath one of the bushes. In it he finds some women, one of whom is more beautiful than the others. This turns out to be Ǫlvǫr. Oddr tries to abduct her, but she and her companions resist. She promises to make him a magic shirt if he comes back the following summer.
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