ǪrvOdd Ævdr 46VIII (Ǫrv 116)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 116 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Ævidrápa 46)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 924.
Fórum ‘travelled’
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fara (verb; ferr, fór, fóru, farinn): go, travel
heim ‘home’
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heim (adv.): home, back
þaðan ‘from there’
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þaðan (adv.): from there
hoskir ‘wise’
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horskr (adj.; °compar. -ari): wise
notes
[2] hoskir drengir ‘wise fellows’: Oddr presumably refers to himself and his companions. Elsewhere the epithet ho(r)skr ‘wise’ is used ironically (see Ǫrv 79/1, 6) and Note to [All]), though that does not seem to be the case here.
drengir ‘fellows’
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drengr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -; -ir, gen. -ja): man, warrior
[2] drengir: þegnar 471, 173ˣ
notes
[2] hoskir drengir ‘wise fellows’: Oddr presumably refers to himself and his companions. Elsewhere the epithet ho(r)skr ‘wise’ is used ironically (see Ǫrv 79/1, 6) and Note to [All]), though that does not seem to be the case here.
en ‘and’
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2. en (conj.): but, and
haug ‘burial mound’
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haugr (noun m.; °-s, -i; -ar): mound, cairn
Þórði ‘for Þórðr’
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Þórðr (noun m.): Þórðr
hávan ‘a high’
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3. hár (adj.; °-van; compar. hǽrri, superl. hǽstr): high
Maðr ‘man’
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maðr (noun m.): man, person
notes
[5] engi maðr þorði ‘no man dared’: Maðr is both redundant and unmetrical, but all the mss have it.
notes
[5] engi maðr þorði ‘no man dared’: Maðr is both redundant and unmetrical, but all the mss have it.
þorði ‘dared’
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þora (verb): dare
notes
[5] engi maðr þorði ‘no man dared’: Maðr is both redundant and unmetrical, but all the mss have it.
gera ‘to act’
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1. gera (verb): do, make
var ‘there was’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
oss ‘to us’
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vér (pron.; °gen. vár, dat./acc. oss): we, us, our
vættegis ‘no’
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vættki (noun n.; °vettugis/vettergis, dat. vettugi): nothing
[7] vættegis: so 471, enskis 343a, enskis þá 173ˣ
notes
[7] vættegis ‘no’: Lit. ‘of nothing at all’. Vættegis is a reduced, later form of vættergis, gen. of vætki ‘nothing’, used adverbially.
vant ‘lack’
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2. vanr (adj.): lacking
ins ‘of what’
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2. inn (art.): the
góða ‘was good’
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góðr (adj.): good
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The prose text tells that Oddr and his men carry Þórðr’s corpse back to Sweden and raise a mound over him there (Ǫrv 1888, 94-5). The second helmingr probably refers to their reception after they return to Uppsala. — [1-4]: All mss have the verbs fórum ‘we travelled’ (l. 1) and 343a and 173ˣ have urpum ‘we threw up’ (l. 4), while 471 has urpu ‘they threw up’ in the second instance. Skj B emends to make both verbs 3rd pers. pl., though the 1st pers. pl. forms are perfectly acceptable. — [7-8]: These lines are very similar to Vsp 8/3-4 (NK 2) var þeim vættergis | vant ór gulli ‘they [the gods] had no lack of gold at all’.
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